English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century
English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century

Author: G.E Mingay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1134529228

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First 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.

History of Bedfordshire
History of Bedfordshire

Author: Joyce Godber

Publisher: Phillimore

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9780907041276

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Bedfordshire’s greatest son, John Bunyan, the visionary preacher and author, lived from 1628 to 1688. He, and a great number of people and places, come to life in this book which covers the period 1066-1888. Apart from Bunyan, it shows the ordinary people, not merely the lord and the gentleman, but the townsman and yeoman; the struggle to gain a living, the way they expressed themselves in buildings and in recreation, and how they formed religious institutions. From the lighterman bringing produce up the rivers to the navvy building the railway.