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1972, Teesside Museums and Art Galleries Department
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Edition:
1972, Teesside Museums and Art Galleries Department
Publisher:
Teesside Museums and Art Galleries Department
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1972
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English
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Brian Holt. Good in Good jacket. xxv, [1], 525, [1] pages. Copy of a Library of Congress index card laid in. Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. DJ has wear and soiling. Includes Frontispiece of the Author, as well as 64 black and white illustrations. Also contains a Prologue, and Epilogue, and three sections of Appendices (17 items). Select Index. A well-researched and authoritative history of the town of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. This book is an attempt, by a Stocktonian, to interpret the historical development of his native town. It does not pretend to be an exhaustive survey. The information in this book has been gathered from many separate and diverse sources. It has been brought together in an attempt to form a continuous narrative, --the story of the gradual emergence, from the mists of time, of individual freedom, and collective borough status, for the people of Stockton. Chapter VI is entitled "The early Stuarts, and the first Scottish Occupation" and Chapter VII is entitled "The Great Rebellion, the Second Scottish Occupation and the Commonwealth." Stockton-on-Tees is a large market town in County Durham, England. The manor of Stockton was created around 1138 and was purchased by Bishop Pudsey of Durham in 1189. During the 13th century, the bishop turned the village of Stockton into a borough. When the bishop freed the serfs of Stockton, craftsmen came to live in the new town. The bishop had a residence in Stockton Castle, which was just a fortified manor house. The first recorded reference to the castle was in 1376. Stockton's market can trace its history to 1310, when Bishop Bek of Durham granted a market charter-to the town of Stockton a market upon every Wednesday for ever. The town grew into a busy little port, exporting wool and importing wine which was demanded by the upper class. However even by the standards of the time, medieval Stockton-on-Tees was a small town with a population of only around 1, 000, and did not grow any larger for centuries. The Scots captured Stockton Castle in 1644 and occupied it until 1646. It was destroyed at the order of Oliver Cromwell at the end of the Civil War.
