Tenure, Profit and Politics in the Early-Modern Somerset Levels
by
Patricia Croot
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This detailed and original study of early-modern agrarian society in the Somerset Levels examines the small landholders in a group of sixteen contiguous parishes in the area known as Brent Marsh. These were farmers with lifehold tenures and a mixed agricultural production whose activities and outlook...