Abstract
Acknowledgements Introduction John Chartres and David Hey 1. Joan Thirsk: a personal appreciation Alan Everitt 2. The Verneys as enclosing landlords, 1600-1800 John Broad 3. Estate management in eighteenth-century England: the Lowther-Spedding relationship in Cumberland John Beckett 4. 'Vain projects': the Crown and its copyholders in the reign of James I Richard Hoyle 5. Rural society and agricultural change: Ombersley 1580-1700 Peter Large 6. The limitations of the probate inventory Margaret Spufford 7. Freebench and free enterprise: widows and their property in two Berkshire villages Barbara Todd 8. Wives and wills 1558-1700 Mary Prior 9. The horse trade of Shropshire in the early modern period Peter Edwards 10. 'An essay on manures': changing attitudes to fertilization in England, 1500-1800 Donald Woodward 11. Root crops and the feeding of London's poor in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Malcolm Thick 12. 'Thirty years on': progress towards integration amongst the immigrant population of Elizabethan London Andrew Pettegree 13. No English Calvados? English distillers and the cider industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries John Chartres 14. The origins and early growth of the Hallamshire cutlery and allied trades David Hey 15. Joan Thirsk: a bibliography Margery Tranter Index.
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