An Industrious Mind: The Worlds of Sir Simonds d'Ewes

Author/Contributor(s):	McGee, J Sears
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	03/18/2015
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The huge archive of the personal papers (most of them unexamined by historians) of Sir Simonds D'Ewes afford us an intimate view of both the public and private lives of a seventeenth-century gentleman-a Puritan, a Parliamentarian, a lawyer, genealogist, and antiquarian who deepens our understanding of the reasons why Britain plunged into civil wars in the 1640s and why the wars had the consequences that they did.