English Towns, 1500-1700

activities agricultural apprentices Beccles Birmingham borough Bristol Bury St Edmunds capital cent centres Chester Clark and Slack cloth coast countryside county town Crisis and order decline demographic dominated E. A. Wrigley early seventeenth century East Anglia Econ economic eighteenth century England English towns epidemic Everitt example Exeter fire grocers guild Hearth Tax Hist historical geography houses Ibid immigration important increase industrial Ipswich John Patten Kings Lynn larger towns later seventeenth century Leicester Liverpool London manufacturing market towns medieval merchants migration Newcastle Norfolk Norwich occupations Oxford pattern places plague poor population growth ports pre-industrial England provincial cities provincial towns Record Society regional role rural seventeenth century sixteenth and seventeenth sixteenth century social sources Southampton specialized structure suburbs Suffolk Sussex textile tion trade Trans Tudor Unpubl urban economies urban growth urban populations urban system villages W. G. Hoskins whilst Worcester Yarmouth York