The Ulster Port Books, 1612-15

The Early seventeenth-century port books for Londonderry, Coleraine, Carrickfergus and the Lecale ports are an underrated source which have been underutilised by historians of the early seventeenth century. As Robert Hunter himself highlighted, they can be used to establish the character of the merchant class of the emerging plantation towns and the incipient commercialisation which was one of the characteristics of plantation. They can also be used, as names are gradually identified, to indicate the hinterlands of the Ulster ports, for example, Strabane merchants trading through Derry.

• | Author: Robert John Hunter, Brendan Scott
• | Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
• | Publication Date: Oct 23, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 146 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1908448954
• | ISBN-13: 9781908448958