The Last Popular Rebellion: The Western Rising of 1685

First edition.  xii, 308pp, with four maps.  In black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine.  8vo.  Rubbed and rounded at spine ends, gently so on corners. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original laminated, illustrated dust wrapper, bumped along upper edge, gently rubbed at spine ends, price clipped.

Clifton’s original study of the Monmouth Rebellion begins by setting the economic and social context of the West Country in the late 17th century, particularly in Somerset, and assessing the part played by religion in causing the rebellion, examines the character of the Dukle of Monmouth himself – an incompetent rake – and provides an account of the rebellion and its consequences.