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This Nicholas Condy painting shows a scene of the port of Sutton that barely changed over the ages Plymouth was to earn itself one additional Royal Monopoly in 1390 when it was designated as being one of only two ports from which religious pilgrims were allowed to sail overseas from. This early form of control of movement was a way to help the King collect customs and dues from pilgrimages but it also allowed him the ability to sanction or curtail voyages to destinations that he might feel were undesirable. It was a crude form of control but one that perhaps would help explain why Plymouth would go on to become such an important centre of religious and radical activity in the Tudor and Stuart periods. Plymouth was officially incorporated as a town in 1440 and was allowed to be ruled by a guild. This meant that all traders and businessmen in the town had the right to select a town council and mayor to run the place. It also meant that commerce was given a pre-eminent position and anything to protect or enhance trade was seen as the priority for the town council. Unfortunately, Plymouth was about to enter some choppy economic waters as first the Hundred Years War came to an end, which saw a diminution in supply ships and military expeditions, and then the growing problems of the Wars of the Roses which paralysed much of the trade and commerce of the country as the Yorkists and Lancastrians fought for control of the Crown. There was little the town council could do to counter these forces and considerable division and suspicion was unleashed in the wake of what was effectively a Civil War. It was during these Wars of the Roses that Plymouth became an unlikely staging post of a French army that was landed in the port in order to help the Lancastrians in their battle against the Yorkists in 1461. This Nicholas Condy painting shows what the old port of Plymouth would have looked like. It was actually painted in the 19th century but could have come from earlier eras In the next issue: Stephen Luscombe takes a look at Plymouth from the golden age of the Tudors. Stephen's fantastic website, from which this article is drawn is available here: www.britishempire.co.uk Please take a look!
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This Nicholas Condy painting shows a scene of the port of Sutton that barely changed over the ages<br />
Plymouth was to earn itself one additional Royal Monopoly in 1390 when it was designated as<br />
being one of only two ports from which religious pilgrims were allowed to sail overseas from. This<br />
early form of control of movement was a way to help the King collect customs and dues from<br />
pilgrimages but it also allowed him the ability to sanction or curtail voyages to destinations that he<br />
might feel were undesirable. It was a crude form of control but one that perhaps would help<br />
explain why Plymouth would go on to become such an important centre of religious and radical<br />
activity in the Tudor and Stuart periods. Plymouth was officially incorporated as a town in 1440<br />
and was allowed to be ruled by a guild. This meant that all traders and businessmen in the town<br />
had the right to select a town council and mayor to run the place. It also meant that commerce<br />
was given a pre-eminent position and anything to protect or enhance trade was seen as the<br />
priority for the town council. Unfortunately, Plymouth was about to enter some choppy economic<br />
waters as first the Hundred Years War came to an end, which saw a diminution in supply ships<br />
and military expeditions, and then the growing problems of the Wars of the Roses which<br />
paralysed much of the trade and commerce of the country as the Yorkists and Lancastrians fought<br />
for control of the Crown. There was little the town council could do to counter these forces and<br />
considerable division and suspicion was unleashed in the wake of what was effectively a Civil War.<br />
It was during these Wars of the Roses that Plymouth became an unlikely staging post of a French<br />
army that was landed in the port in order to help the Lancastrians in their battle against the<br />
Yorkists in 1461.<br />
This Nicholas Condy painting shows what the old port of Plymouth would have looked<br />
like. It was actually painted in the 19th century but could have come from earlier eras<br />
In the next issue:<br />
Stephen Luscombe takes a look at Plymouth from the<br />
golden age of the Tudors.<br />
Stephen's fantastic website, from which this article is<br />
drawn is available here: www.britishempire.co.uk<br />
Please take a look!
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