Vexed and Troubled Englishman 1590-1642: The Beginnings of the American People

xix, 487 pp. The hardships of everyday life which led to mass emigration are the focus of an investigation into the local histories of seventeenth-century England. CONTENTS: Westward the Land Was Bright; I. The People of England; II. Country People; III. Countrymen Day by Day; IV. Townsmen and Citizens; V. London: The Staple of English Civilitie; VI. Englishmen at Work; VII.The Rulers and the Ruled; VIII. The Faiths of Englishmen; IX. Educated and Cultured Englishmen; X. Insecure, Disorderly Englishmen; XI. The First Swarming of the English; XII. The Puritan Hegira; In Deo Speramus; Index.