Transforming English Rural Society : The Verneys and the Claydons, 1600-1820 (Hardcover)

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on editorial practice; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. Re-establishing a Gentry Family 1600?57: 2. A gentry family in county and court society 1603?42; 3. The Civil War and Interregnum 1642?57; 4. The creation of an enclosed estate 1600?57; Part II. The Shaping of Family and Village 1657?1740: 5. Land, business and dynastic advance 1657?1736; 6. The making of a modern landed estate; 7. Power in the community - the making of an estate village 1660?1740; Part III. The Great Estate and Estate Communities c.1700?1820: 8. The rise and fall of Verney fortunes in the eighteenth century 1740?1820; 9. Transforming the Claydons in the eighteenth century; 10. Conclusion; Appendix A: Sir Ralph Verney's confessional letter of 1650; Appendix B: the genealogy of the Verney family; Bibliography; Index.