Covers the manufacture of iron, the life of ironworkers, and the use of iron implements in colonial times and includes a variety of related activities and a mystery story.
Les plees des coron, diuisees in plusors titles & cm̳on lieux. Per queux home pluis redement & plenairement trouera quelque chose que il quira, touchant les dits plees, composees per le tresreuerend judge monsieur Guilliaulme Staundforde chiualer, dernierment corrigee auecques vn table parfaicte des choses notables contenus en ycelle, nouelment reueu & corrigee. Anno Domini 1583
Irregularities in foliation: leaves 11 and 72 omitted, leaves 12 and 71 repeated in numbering; leaves 79 and 198 incorrectly numbered 67 and 196, respectively.
Title within ornamental border.
At foot of t.p.: [paragraph mark] Cum priuilegio.
"Cest Table ne fuit collect nefait par mounsieur Stanforde, mes per vu auter [William Rastell]": verso of 12th prelim. leaf.
Pleas of the crown.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law library.
Yeates's signature under that of struck former owner.
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins.While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations. [from the publisher]
"More a reference book than a book you read straight through, this book advances the fascinating thesis that four groups of immigrants from England ( Albion ) essentially set much of what we now regard as American culture. The links between these four waves of immigrants from particular parts of England, and the Yankee, patrician Virginia, Quaker/Philadelphia, and Appalachian hill cultures, are documented.Its fascinating to see traits that seem inexplicable and odd traced back to obscure corners of 17th and 18th century England. We're talking about the way houses look, the way people get married, their attitude toward government, you name it." [from GoodReads]
