The Chronicles of John Cannon, Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 1 - 1684-1733 (Somerset, Oxfordshire, Berkshire)

This edition is the first full scale study of John Cannon and his chronicles. Known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', Cannon wrote a remarkably candid autobiography, during a crucial period of change in British history. Part 1 includes Cannon's account of his service in the Country Excise.