Black Harry (eBook)

Mark P Henderson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Stairwell Books (Verlag)
978-1-913432-78-2 (ISBN)

Infos

William Dickenson, man of business to the earl of Shrewsbury, knows that raising the rents on farmholds will ease his master's cash-flow problem. But Lord Shrewsbury imposes such huge increases on one manor, Glossopdale in the Derbyshire Peak District, that none of the tenants can pay. "e;Black Harry"e; Botham, of Storth Farm in the Glossopdale hamlet of Simmondley, knows the courts won't oppose those rent increases; Lord Shrewsbury is too powerful. So accompanied by a few followers he walks to London, determined to complain to the Queen's Privy Council.Will this desperate venture cost him his family, his freedom, his livelihood - even his life? Told partly by Tom "e;Spiderlegs"e; Booth, Harry's brother-in-law and close friend, and partly from William Dickenson's perspective, Black Harry recounts one of the most remarkable David and Goliath episodes in Elizabethan England.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: authentic diaect • brimming with vitality and wit • elizabethan • folk hero • Glossopdale • peasant farmer stubbornness • Privy Council
• ISBN-10: 1-913432-78-5 / 1913432785
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913432-78-2 / 9781913432782