Stewards, Lords and People
The Estate Steward and his World in Later Stuart England
1992
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The landed estates were one of the fundamental structures of early modern England. They were omnipresent, for they were not confined to the countryside but penetrated into every borough and city. English society was composed largely of landlords and tenants. It follows that to understand the nature of this society the relationship between the two must be studied, and in particular the role of the man who linked the estate steward. Stewards, Lords and People analyses the role of the estate stewards in the social mechanisms of later Stuart England. It is based on many years of research among more than 10,000 letters exchanged by stewards and their masters about estates as widely distributed as Northumberland and Cornwall, Cumberland and Sussex.
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David Roger Hainsworth
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David Roger Hainsworth (born 1931) is a retired academic who taught at Adelaide University from 1965 until his retirement in 1993.
