'Bloodsuckers of the Commonwealth': anti-monopoly petitioning in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1590-1625)
<p>In the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period, monopolies emerged as a crucial tool of crown financial policy. In response, subjects petitioned crown, council, and parliament to lament the changes these grants wrought on their trades and livelihoods. This thesis will offer an analysis of anti...
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2023
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