This volume explores the ways in which the English settlers in Louth maintained their English identity in the face of plague and warfare, through the turbulent decades between 1330 and 1450.

• List of maps and tables


• Preface


• Abbreviations


• Introduction


• PART ONE: CRISIS AND SURVIVAL


• 1: False Dawn, 1330-1369


• 2: Friends Like These: William Windsor and Edmund Mortimer, 1369-1381


• 3: Richard II and his Legacy, 1382-1405


• 4: 'The Poor Commons', 1405-1450


• PART TWO: SETTLER SOCIETY


• 5: The Church


• 6: The Towns


• 7: The Marches


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

Brendan Smith received his B.A. (Mod.) and Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin and held a postdoctoral Newman Scholarship at University College Dublin before taking up a lectureship at the University of Bristol in 1993.