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This study is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth century English village, which analyzes the social, economic, and spatial relations between some 780 inhabitants in the Warwickshire parish of Chilvers Coton in 1684.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: A Time in Place, A Place in Time
- 2: Itinerary-Cartography-Census
- Part I: Coton Town
- 3: The Mill on the Wem: Henry Clay of Cuttle Place, miller (1643-c.1698)
- 4: The Vicarage at All Saints: The Reverend John Perkins, vicar (1638-91)
- 5: A Ribbon-Maker's Cottage on Bridge Street: John Knight, silk-weaver (1654-1721)
- 6: The Alehouse in the Bull Ring: Frances Rason, victualler (1624-85)
- 7: The Forge on Windmill Field Lane: Samuel Brown, blacksmith (1645-84)
- 8: A House with a Lean-to in the Heath End: Abraham Checkly, labourer (1647-1724)
- 9: A Nail-smith's Cottage in Paradise End: Christopher Smith, nailer (1632-96)
- Part II: From Wash Lane to Griff
- 10: A 'Mean Tenement' on Wash Lane: William Nock, collier (1644-1710)
- 11: 'A House in Two Parts' in Griff: Henry Beighton III, yeoman (1658-1724)
- Part III: Arbury and the Woodland
- 12: The Household Staff at Arbury Hall (1678-1710)
- 13: The Mason's Farm on the Arbury Demesne: Andrew Hardy, bricklayer (1643-1702)
- 14: Temple House at Lutman's End: Henry King, husbandman (1647-98)
- 15: A 'Middling Farm' in the Woodland: Thomas Nash, carpenter (1634-1701)
- Conclusion
- 16: Space, Place, and Flow
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Following a Junior Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, and a Warwick Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick, Steve Hindle was appointed Professor of History at Warwick in 2003. After sixteen years in the Warwick History Department, he assumed the W. M. Keck Foundation Directorship of Research at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California in 2011, where he spent eleven years (including two as Interim President). He was appointed to the Hirst Chair in Early Modern British History at Washington University in St. Louis in 2022.
Summary
This study is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth century English village, which analyzes the social, economic, and spatial relations between some 780 inhabitants in the Warwickshire parish of Chilvers Coton in 1684.
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