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Relationships Lost and Found in the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic

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Container-title:Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850
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Author:

Dalton Heather¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Melbourne, the University of Bristol

Abstract

At 21, Robert Tomson had become an integral part of an English merchant’s household in Seville and in 1555 he joined their emigration to Mexico. There he fell victim to the Inquisition. After languishing in jails in Mexico City and Seville, Tomson resumed his career in Seville under the protection of another English merchant and married a Spanish heiress. On returning to England, Tomson, eager to avoid accusations of papacy, wrote an account of his experiences. In this chapter I look at the personal relationships and family connections central to his story, exploring a world where marriages that transcended national ties and traditional boundaries were central to individual survival and to the project of national expansion.

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

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