The Camden volumes, published by the Royal Historical Society, offer collections of skilfully edited primary source material for historians. The Camden Miscellany collections contain a variety of shorter documents and papers. This volume comprises seventeenth-century documents on parliamentary and financial matters. These include the parliamentary papers of Nicholas Ferrar (1624), the letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper (1641-57) and the assessment lists for the Cromwellian decimation tax of 1655.
Reviews
"...the letters provide a marvelous insight into the life and interests of a country squire during two of England's most tumultuous decades." Marl E. Kennedy, Albion