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BLACK HARRY IBD

STAIRWELL BOOKS
03 / 2023
9781913432683
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Sinopsis

William Dickenson, man of business to the earl of Shrewsbury, knows that raising the rents on farmholds will ease his masterâÇÖs cash-flow problem. But Lord Shrewsbury imposes such huge increases on one manor, Glossopdale in the Derbyshire Peak District, that none of the tenants can pay.á'Black Harry' Botham, of Storth Farm in the Glossopdale hamlet of Simmondley, knows the courts wonâÇÖt oppose those rent increases, Lord Shrewsbury is too powerful. So accompanied by a few followers he walks to London, determined to complain to the QueenâÇÖs Privy Council.Will this desperate venture cost him his family, his freedom, his livelihood - even his life?áTold partly by Tom 'Spiderlegs' Booth, HarryâÇÖs brother-in-law and close friend, and partly from William DickensonâÇÖs perspective, Black Harry recounts one of the most remarkable David and Goliath episodes in Elizabethan England.