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Landowners on the Devon and Somerset border :
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Flower-Smith, Ruth Priscilla.
1660-1715.
University of Exeter
1996
Ph.D.
University of Exeter
1996
The object of this study is to examine the economic, religious,political and social aspects of landowning on the Devon and Somersetborder, at a time of change and challenge after the Restoration. Itconsiders in particular whether landowners were able to abandon theanimosities that had been aroused by the Civil War.The first chapter is an introduction to the region and itslandowners, together with a discussion of the sources used. It points outthe themes which will be developed in later chapters. This is followedby a study of landowning, showing its progress in the parish of Uffculmein Devon. Chapter 3 takes a look at society at a level below that of themiddling gentry, to the trademen and yeomen who were beginning to maketheir way into the landowning class, and provides some case studies.Chapters 4 and 5 concern the economic aspects of landowning, includingagriculture, estate management and the cloth trade and show how withcareful husbanding of resources an estate could be made to pay even indifficult times, but how the shift of the London cloth trade to theExeter ports adversely affected some estates. Nonconformity was closelylinked with the cloth trade and the landowner's beliefs and theirconnection with levels of nonconformity are discussed in chapter 6.Religious attitudes were closely linked to political outlook in theseventeenth-century and political themes are examined in chapter 7. Thefirst section discusses the divided society that had developed at the endof the 1670s and the second contains a description of the MPs, theelectorate, the conduct of elections, and the issues involved. Chapter8 is concerned with prevailing social attitudes to patriarchialism andcontract, viewing three groups within the household, that of husbands andwives, parents and children, and master/mistress and servant. The finalchapter is a conclusion of how well the ideas with which the study wasbegun have been supported by the evidence adduced.
Household in 17c.; Estate management
Flower-Smith, Ruth Priscilla.
University of Exeter
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