The Pattern of Landownership in England and Wales, 1660-1880

Making property productive: reorganizing rights to real and equitable estates in Britain, 1660-1830

“…Some of the best-known works describing the system of strict settlements areThompson (1963Thompson ( , 1994,Spring (1964Spring ( , 1983Spring ( , 1993,Baker (1971),English and Saville (1983),Beckett (1984),Habakkuk (1994) andCannadine (1994).…”

Estate acts, 1600–1830: A new source for British history

“…There is a large and venerable body of scholarship which uses the clerical titles to categorize and count acts of Parliament. The most recent examples include Hoppit (1996Hoppit ( , 1997Hoppit ( , 2003, Innes (1997), Tate (1967, 1978), Turner (1980, 1984, and Wordie (1983). All of these studies relied on printed sources, like the Statutes of the Realm, or the conversion of printed sources into an electronic form.…”

“…Nobles obtained acts authorizing the sale of land at a slightly lower rate than the gentry. This may reflect a trend in which noble families were accumulating property over this period, and where the estates of the largest holders were gradually growing (see Beckett 1984).…”

“…Some of the best known works describing the system of strict settlements are Thompson (1963), Eileen (1964, 1993, Baker (1971) English and Saville (1983), Beckett (1984), Habakkuk (1994), and Cannadine (1994). the alterations to be an improvement.…”

Interpreting the Early Modern World

“…With the security of landed property now protected against the arbitrary power of the Crown by a parliament of the propertied, with the adoption of new inheritance practices (entails and strict settlements), and with significant developments in the structure of farming, landed estates grew steadily in size (Beckett, 1984(Beckett, , 1986. Enclosure, and the replacement of customary tenancies with leaseholds, ensured that their control over the landscape also grew.…”