Mark Stoyle. Circled with Stone. Exeter's City Walls 1485 - 1660. University of Exeter Press, 2003. Good cond, in VG untorn and unmarked dj. Front of cloth coveris spotted otherwise book is VG with no markings and bright pages and text. Small Quarto. Ill. with 26 plates in colour,13 of them reproductions..ons of Tudor and Stuart Maps. 8 modern Maps and 16 Diagrams. Preface by the author. In 2 parts 1. The History of the City Walls. 2. Documents relating to the City Walls. Glossary. Abbreviations, Notes. Indices of Places and Subjects and Persons. 231 pp. An exhaustive examination of the subject. A work of scholarship which attempts to be accessible to the reader interested either in Exeter's History or city fortifications in Tudor and Stuart England. This is a stirring story is the walls were attacked no fewer than 5 times during this period. The author was a Lecturer in Early Modern history at Southampton University, specialising in the history of the West of England, later becoming P