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The Tudor and Jacobean Legacy
The Tudor period established Gloucester as a great entrepreneurial and mercantile city, much favoured by Henry VII who bestowed Cathedral status on St Peter′s Abbey in 1451. Several timber framed buildings from this period still survive to bear witness to the great prosperity of the city in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
By 1600 many markets were held in Gloucester, where cattle, sheep, grain and farm produce were traded alongside goods brought up via the River Severn or made in the city itself. Textiles were manufactured in Gloucester at this time and by 1700 the city was also to boast many important professional and judicial services.
Gloucester was a Parliamentarian stronghold in the Civil War and in 1643 it famously resisted a lengthy Royalist siege. This conflict damaged large areas of the city which was further compounded by the punitive post-reformation demolition of the city walls by a vengeful Charles 2nd.
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