Plague, Flood and Gewgaws: Wisbech and the Fens in Tudor and Stuart Times av Diane Calton Smith

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<p>It must truly have been a night to remember, when the ancient tower of St Peter¿s came crashing down.</p><p>But that was just the beginning of all that would befall the people of Wisbech and the Fens in the Tudor and Stuart eras. They were about to enter a time of such upheaval that the way they behaved, prayed, even the way in which they were expected to think, would be turned upside down.</p><p>¿Plague, Flood and Gewgaws¿ follows the progress of Wisbech and the Fens through two hundred turbulent years, witnessing the perils of religious Reform, flood, plague, fire and civil war.</p><P>And it is the ordinary people who take centre stage here. Not the kings, bishops or burgesses, but the folk who laboured, fought and rebelled; the cottagers, ploughmen, dykers ... and the Fen Tigers themselves.</p>