Provincial England: Essays in Social and Economic History PDF
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PROVINCIAL ENGLAND By the sameauthor * THE MIDLAND PEASANT THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE LOCAL HISTORY IN ENGLAND m ", Ofl AfSF/ n a Iflli,lJ d n a t ri es ut w Tr h- TIlt,l/titi~h thesout f o al c pi y t h c r u h c d e at ol s i n a : h c r u h C w o t s n e w r o M Provincial england ESSAYS IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY by w. G. HOSKINS Reader inEconomicHistoryin theUniversityofOxford LONDON MACMILLAN & CO LTD NEWYORK•STMARTIN'S PRESS 1963 Copyright © W. G. Hoskins 1963 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1963 978-0-333-06895-3 MACMILLAN AND COMPANY LIMITED St Martin's Street London WC 2 also Bombay Calcutta Madras Melbourne THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED Toronto ST MARTIN'S PRESS INC New York ISBN 978-1-349-00468-3 ISBN 978-1-349-00466-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-00466-9 To Generalize isto bean Idiot. To Particularize istheAlone Distinction ofMerit. WILLIAM BLAKE PREFACE IN this book I have gathered together a number of essayswhich have been published in various places during the last dozen years or so. They have two things in common: they are concerned en tirely with various aspects of English socialand economichistory, and they are devoted towhat mightbecalledthe ProvincesofEng land. Hence the title of the book. Some of these essayswere pub lished in places difficultof accessfor interested readers, and some are nowdifficultto obtain atall.Two essayshavenot hithertobeen published. Of these, that on 'The Highland Zone in Domesday Book'waswrittenespeciallyfor this book.Theother, on 'The Re discovery of England' was first given as three talks in the Third Programme ofthe British Broadcasting Corporation, and I am in debted to the Corporation for permission to publish them here, slightly amendedinstylebutnotinsubstance. For permission to publish the essays which have already ap pearedinprintelsewhere I amgrateful tovarious editors and pub lishers: to the Wool Education Society for 'Sheep Farming in Saxon and Medieval England', originally published asa pamphlet in 1955;to the Councilofthe RoyalHistorical Societyfor 'English Provincial Towns in the Early Sixteenth Century', originallypub lished in the Transactions of the Society for 1956; to Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd. for 'An Elizabethan Provincial Town: Leicester', which first appeared in Studies in Social History: A Tribute to G. M. Trevelyan (1955); and to the editors of Past and Presentfor 'The Rebuilding of Rural England, 1570-1640', which appearedinthatjournalinNovember1953. Tothe editorofAgriculturalHistory I amobligedfor permission to reprint'TheLeicestershireFarmerinthe SeventeenthCentury', which firstappearedinthatjournalin 1951. Four ofthe essaysoriginally appeared in the Transactionsofthe Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. These were 'Croft Hill' (1950), 'The Origin and Rise of Market Harborough' (1949),'SevenDesertedVillageSitesinLeicestershire' (1956),and 'The Population of an English Village, 1086-1801' (1957). For permission to reprint these essaysI am grateful to the editor and committee of the Society, as alsofor the loan of the blocks of the line-maps illustrating the essays on Market Harborough and the vni Preface desertedvillages.TheOrdnanceSurveyhavealsogivenpermission forthe reproductionof the lattermaps.Finally, Messrs. Longmans have kindly lent the three blocks which illustrate the essay on Elizabethan Leicester. w. G. HOSKINS CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE vii I SHEEP FARMING IN SAXON AND MEDIEVAL ENGLAND 1 II THE HIGHLAND ZONE IN DOMESDAY BOOK 15 III THE ORIGIN AND RISE OF MARKET HARBOROUGH 53 IV ENGLISH PROVINCIAL TOWNS IN THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY 68 V AN ELIZABETHAN PROVINCIAL TOWN: LEICESTER 86 VI SEVEN DESERTED VILLAGE SITES IN LEICESTERSHIRE 1I5 VII THE REBUILDING OF RURAL ENGLAND, 1570-1640 131 VIII THE LEICESTERSHIRE FARMER IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 149 IX CROFT HILL 170 X THE POPULATION OF AN ENGLISH VILLAGE, 1086-1801: A STUDY OF WIGSTON MAGNA 181 XI THE REDISCOVERY OF ENGLAND 209 INDEX 231
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