Townspeople and nation : English urban experiences, 1540-1640 / Robert Tittler.

Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2001.

xi, 251 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Browne, town, and crown: John Browne and the quest for crown lands in Boston -- John Pitt and the building of the Blandford Forum town hall -- John and Joan Cooke: civic portraiture and urban identity in Gloucester -- Sir Thomas White of London: civic philanthropy and the making of the merchant-hero -- Henry Manship: constructing the civic memory in Great Yarmouth -- Henry Hardware and the face of Puritan reform in Chester -- Swaddon the swindler and Pulman the "thief-taker": crime and variations in the great metropolis -- Joyce Jefferies and the possibilities of spinsterhood in Hereford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.