ABSTRACT
It was the pioneering work of Ian Roy in the 1970s that made the study of the economic impact of the English Civil War the subject of serious historical research in its own right.1 Previously the economic impact of the war had received little more attention than a few passing references in the standard textbooks of economic history.2 The proliferation of county and regional studies has also deepened our knowledge of the impact of the war, including the economic disruption, but these works have tended to focus on the political implications of economic distress?
