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Horatia Durant.
‘Sorrowful Captives’: The Tudor Earls of Devon.
Published Pontypool: Hughes & Son, 1960.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Hughes & Son, Griffin Press, Pontypool.
Size: 141×220×14mm.
Page count: text 133pp; plates 9pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is rather frayed on its edges and corners; boards and spine a bit yellowed with some wear on the edges and corners; previous owner’s name on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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Weight without packaging: 311g.

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The story of the Courtenays: William, married to the daughter of Edward IV; Henry, created Marquess of Exeter by Henry VIII and then executed; and Edward, sent to the Tower at the age of twelve and not released until Mary’s accession some fifteen years later.

Contents: Early history; Royal marriage; The good years; “Worse than a lion”; Death of the Marquess; 15 years in the Tower; First weeks of freedom; Prison once more; Banishment; “Port after stormie seas”.

Illustrations: 9 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: 2
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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