The Story of Boston

Richard Gurnham

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780750955737
• eBook ISBN: 9780750956949
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

Founded shortly after the Conquest of 1066, Boston rapidly grew to become the most successful English port outside of London. The growth of the wool trade in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries led to the building of St Botolph's, the largest parish church in the country. During the seventeenth century the town was strongly Puritan, causing some inhabitants to emigrate to America to found the new city of Boston, Massachusetts. Some of the Pilgrim Fathers were imprisoned in the medieval Guildhall, which survives to this day. Boston's story is brought right up to date, celebrating the complete history of this fabulous Lincolnshire town in a volume that will delight locals and visitors alike.

NOTES

Chapter One

1 S. Rigby, ‘Medieval Boston: Economy, Society and Administration’ in Sally Badham & Paul Cockerham, eds., ‘The Beste and Fayrest of Al Lincolnshire’: The Church of St Botolph, Boston, Lincolnshire, and Its Medieval Monuments (Oxford, 2012), pp.6–9; John Morris, ed., Domesday Book, 31, Lincolnshire, Vol.1, (Chichester, 1986) 12.67, 348b; A.M. Cook, Boston, Botolph’s Town: A Short History of a Great Parish Church and the Town About It (Boston, 1948) p.4; G. Jebb, The Church of St Botolph, Boston (Boston, 1895), p.35; Pishey Thompson, The History and Antiquities of Boston and the Hundred of Skirbeck (Boston, 1856), p.161n

2 Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names (Nottingham, 1998) pp.109, 117–118; P. Dover, The Early Medieval History of Boston, 1086–1400 (Boston, 1970), pp.16–19; Neil Wright, The Book of Boston (Buckingham, 1986) p.13

3 Cameron, p.17; Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place- Names (Oxford, 1936), p.51

4 Cameron, p.111

5 Geoffrey Bryant, Domesday Book; How to Read It and What Its Text Means (Waltham, 1985), p.17

6 Morris, 12.67, 348b

7 M.W. Beresford, New Towns of the Middle Ages (Gloucester, 1988), p.196; P. Dover, p.2

8 Dorothy M. Owen, ‘The Beginnings of the Port of Boston’ in N. Field & A. White, A Prospect of Lincolnshire (Lincoln, 1984), pp. 42–5

9 Dorothy M. Owen, Church and Society in Medieval Lincolnshire, History of Lincolnshire, Vol.v (Lincoln, 1990), p.68

10 T.H. Lloyd, The English Wool Trade in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1977), p.6; Richard Gurnham, A History of Lincoln (Chichester, 2009), p.28, 30–32; E.Carus-Wilson, ‘The Medieval Trade of the Ports of the Wash’, Medieval Archaeology, vi–vii (1962–3), pp.185–188

11 Dover, pp.8–9

12 Eileen Power, The Wool Trade in English Medieval History (Oxford, 1941) pp.57–8; Carus-Wilson, ‘Medieval Trade of the Ports of the Wash’, pp.192–3

13 Dover, p.9; Rigby, pp.9–12

14 Ibid., p.21

15 Graham Platts, ‘Land and People in Medieval Lincolnshire’, History of Lincolnshire, iv, (Lincoln, 1985), p.297

16 Dover, p.10; S.H. Rigby, ‘Boston and Grimsby in the Middle Ages: An Administrative Contrast’, Journal of Medieval History, 10, (1984), pp.58–9

17 K.J. Allison, ed., ‘A History of the County of York, East Riding, Vol.i’, The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Oxford, 1969), p.13

18 Platts, p.219; Rigby, ‘Medieval Boston’, p.9

19 Owen, ‘Beginnings of the Port’, pp.43–5

20 Platts, p.143–4; Dover, p.21; Neil Wright, Boston: A Pictorial History (Chichester, 1994), p.2

21 J.G. Hurst, ‘Medieval and Post-Medieval Pottery Imported into Lincolnshire’, in Dinah Tyszka, Keith Miller and Geoffrey Bryant, eds., Land, People and Landscapes: Essays on the History of the Lincolnshire Region (Lincoln, 1991), pp.49–65

22 Dover, pp.22–23

23 H. Pirenne, Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe (London, 1965), pp.98–9; Terry Jones, Medieval Lives (London, 2004), pp.41–2

24 Thompson, pp.41–2, 44; Platts, pp.243–4; Anthony Oldbuck, A Legend of Boston (Boston, 1837), Chapters 8, 9, 10

25 Rigby, ‘Medieval Boston’, p.10; Lloyd, pp.304–5; Carus-Wilson, ‘Medieval Trade of the Ports of the Wash’, p.186

26 Platts, p.148; Lloyd, pp.66–7; Power, p.22

27 Lloyd, pp.85–6; E.M. Carus-Wilson & Olive Coleman, England’s Export Trade, 1275–1547 (Oxford, 1963), pp.36–40

28 Thompson, pp.52, 134

29 Ibid., pp.314–6

30 Carus-Wilson, ‘Medieval Trade of the Ports of the Wash’, p.187–8

31 Gillian Harden, Medieval Boston and its Archaeological Implications (Boston, 1978), p.12

32 Ibid., pp.14, 33

33 Rigby, ‘Medieval Boston’, p.9; Dorothy Owen, Church and Society in Medieval Lincolnshire (Lincoln, 1990), p.147; Platts, p.225; S. Moorhouse, ‘Finds from Excavations in the Refectory at the Dominican Friary, Boston’, Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vii, 1972, pp.32–40; Mark Ormrod et al, Boston ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• one The Creation of a Medieval ‘New Town’, 1086–1300
• two The Late Medieval Town, 1300–1500
• three Reformation and Incorporation, 1500–1558
• four The Elizabethan and Jacobean Town, 1558–1642
• five The Civil War and the Interregnum, 1642–1660
• six Restoration and ‘Glorious Revolution’, 1660–1700
• seven Georgian Boston, 1700–1837
• eight Victorian and Edwardian Boston, 1837–1914
• nine The Twentieth Century and Beyond
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Copyright