Author: BERRY, ALLAN W.
Title: Suffolk Country Town: A Sudbury Miscellany.
Description: Sudbury: Sudbury Freemans Trust, 1997. 0953061000. 1st edition. "A collection of fascinating tales about Sudbury, the town made famous as Eatonswill in Dickens's Pickwick Papers..Among the author's subjects are Archbishop Simon of Sudbury, beheaded in the Peasant's Revolt, the weaving trade,..Thomas Gainsborough, the scandal of an absconding 19th century banker, local poets, and the freemen of Sudbury. All the essays in this book were previously published as pamphlets .." Pp.285, foreword by Ronald Blythe, 37 b/w illustrations + a double page map of Sudbury(c.1910), owner's initials to front free endpaper. Paperback. VG.

Keywords: Allan Berry Suffolk Country Town Sudbury Miscellany Eatonswill Simon of Sudbury Thomas Gainsborough Silk Weaving History Freemen Lands 51724 East Anglia: : Suffolk


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