English Landed Society in the Eighteenth CenturyFirst published in 2006. This book is based on research into estate records and studies around the three broad categories of landowners: peers, gentry, and freeholders. Landed property was the foundation of eighteenth-century society. The soil itself yielded the nation its sustenance and most of its raw materials, and provided the population with its most extensive means of employment; and the owners of the soil derived from its consequence and wealth the right to govern. |
Contents
The Structure of the Landed Classes | 9 |
The Growth of the Great Estates | 47 |
The Lesser Landowners | 78 |
The Landlords and Politics | 127 |
The Landlords and Society | 225 |
The Landlords and Agriculture | 253 |
The Landlords and Industrial Development | 286 |
The Landlords at Home | 299 |
The Life of the Farmers | 408 |
The Landed Interest in the Eighteenth Century | 429 |
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absentee acres agricultural areas aristocracy arrears Ashburnham Ashburnham MSS Bedfordshire canal capital cent Chandos Chirk Castle coal common considerable contemporary cost cottages country gentlemen countryside course cultivation daughters debts Defoe Duke Duke of Kingston Earl early eighteenth centuries economic enclosure England English expenses farmhouses farms favour freeholders gentry Gloucestershire Grosvenor growth Habakkuk Hist improvements income industrial influence instance investment Ireland J. H. Plumb John John Byng jointure Kent labourers Lady land tax landed interest landed society landlords landowners large estates large owners later eighteenth century leases less living London Lord marriage merchants mortgages Myddelton Nottinghamshire owner-occupiers Parliament peers perhaps political poor pounds profits proprietors rentals rents rise servants settlement seventeenth century Sheffield Central Library shillings social squire steward Sussex R.O. tenants towns trade tradesmen villages W. G. Hoskins wealth Wentworth Woodhouse Young younger sons