Landowners on the Devon and Somerset border : 1660-1715
The object of this study is to examine the economic, religious, political and social aspects of landowning on the Devon and Somerset border, at a time of change and challenge after the Restoration. It considers in particular whether landowners were able to abandon the animosities that had been aroused by the Civil War. The first chapter is an introduction to the region and its landowners, together with a discussion of the sources used. It points out the themes which will be developed in later chapters. This is followed by a study of landowning, showing its progress in the parish of Uffculme in Devon. Chapter 3 takes a look at society at a level below that of the middling gentry, to the trademen and yeomen who were beginning to make their way into the landowning class, and provides some case studies. Chapters 4 and 5 concern the economic aspects of landowning, including agriculture, estate management and the cloth trade and show how with careful husbanding of resources an estate could be made to pay even in difficult times, but how the shift of the London cloth trade to the Exeter ports adversely affected some estates. Nonconformity was closely linked with the cloth trade and the landowner's beliefs and their
Flower-Smith, Ruth Priscilla
Household in 17c.; Estate management
Landowners on the Devon and Somerset border : 1660-1715. The object of this study is to examine the economic, religious, political and social aspects of landowning on the Devon and Somerset border, at a time of change and challenge after the Restoration. It considers in particular whether landowners were able to abandon the animosities that had been aroused by the Civil War. The first chapter is an introduction to the region and its landowners, together with a discussion of the sources used. It points out the themes which will be developed in later chapters. This is followed by a study of landowning, showing its progress in the parish of Uffculme in Devon. Chapter 3 takes a look at society at a level below that of the middling gentry, to the trademen and yeomen who were beginning to make their way into the landowning class, and provides some case studies. Chapters 4 and 5 concern the economic aspects of landowning, including agriculture, estate management and the cloth trade and show how with careful husbanding of resources an estate could be made to pay even in difficult times, but how the shift of the London cloth trade to the Exeter ports adversely affected some estates. Nonconformity was closely linked with the cloth trade and the landowner's beliefs and their
devon somerset border object study examine economic religious_political social_aspect landowning devon somerset border time change challenge restoration considers particular whether landowner able abandon animosity arouse civil_war first introduction region landowner together_discussion source_use point theme_develop late chapter follow study landowning show progress parish devon take look society level middle gentry begin make_way landowning class provide case_study concern economic aspect landowning include agriculture estate_management cloth trade show careful resource estate could_make pay even difficult time shift london cloth trade exeter port adversely affected estate nonconformity closely_link cloth trade landowner belief