{"product_id":"black-harry-9781913432683","title":"Black Harry","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Dickenson, man of business to the earl of Shrewsbury, knows that raising the rents on farmholds will ease his master's 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Black Harry\" Botham, of Storth Farm in the Glossopdale hamlet of Simmondley, knows the courts won't oppose those rent increases; Lord Shrewsbury is too powerful. So accompanied by a few followers he walks to London, determined to complain to the Queen's Privy Council.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill this desperate venture cost him his family, his freedom, his livelihood - even his life? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold partly by Tom \"Spiderlegs\" Booth, Harry's brother-in-law and close friend, and partly from William Dickenson's perspective, Black Harry recounts one of the most remarkable David and Goliath episodes in Elizabethan England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stairwell Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913432683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d","brand":"Mark P. Henderson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42745875464373,"sku":"9781913432683","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c9835c05-223f-4b16-9c94-e40818e8bf9e.jpg?v=1676993976","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/black-harry-9781913432683","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}