History of the County Essex Vol. 9 : The Borough of Colchester

Name: History of the County Essex Vol. 9 : The Borough of Colchester
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ISBN: 9780197227848

ISBN-10: 0197227848

ISBN-13: 9780197227848

Edition: 1994

Authors: Janet Cooper

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The volume, the first full-scale, comprehensive and scholarly history of the ancient borough of Colchester to be published, describes the life of the oldest and for long the largest town in Essex from the Iron Age to 1990. It tells how the stronghold of Cunobelin was replaced by a Roman fortress, later a colonia sacked by Boudica and rebuilt within walls which survived to encompass first a 10th-century burh and later an important medieval town and were to be severely battered be the Royalist siege of 1648. Colchester's Norman castle continued to serve as the sheriff's seat, housing the county gaol until the 17th century. Nevertheless it failed to become the county town, though chosen in…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 479
Size: 8.75" wide x 12.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.642
Language: English