4 John Patten, “Towns in the National Urban System—East Anglia,” English Towns, 1500-1700 (Folkestone, Kent, 1978), 244-96; Felix Hull, “Agriculture and Rural Society in Essex, 1560-1640” (thesis, Univ. of London, 1950), 3; two very rich sources for this region are Thomas William Bramston, ed., The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, KB. (London, 1845); and John Bruce, ed., Diary of John Manningham (Westminster, 1868).
5 B. E. Supple, Commercial Crisis and Change in England, 1600-1642: A Study in the Instability of a Mercantile Economy (Cambridge, 1959), 102-12.
6 J. O. Halliwell ed., The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D’Ewes, Bart., during the Reigns of James I and Charles I (2 vols., London 1845), ca. 1603.
7 Arne Bang-Andersen, Basil Greenhill and Egil Harald Grade, The North Sea: A Highway of Economic and Cultural Exchange; Character—History (Stavanger, Norway, 1985), 9-26, 151-66.