The social topography of a rural community : scenes of labouring life in seventeenth century England / Steve Hindle. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hindle, Steve, 1965- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Social life and customs--17th century--Case studies.

England.

England--Rural conditions--17th century--Case studies.

Chilvers Coton (England)--Social life and customs--17th century.

Chilvers Coton (England).

Chilvers Coton (England)--Rural conditions--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This study is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented 17th century English village, which analyses the social, economic, and spatial relations between some 780 inhabitants in the Warwickshire parish of Chilvers Coton in 1684.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

A Note on the Maps

List of Abbreviations

Epigraph

Introduction

1. A Time in Place, a Place in Time

2. Itinerary-Cartography-Census

I. The Survey and the Census

II. The Motivation for the Survey

III. The Motivation for the Census

IV. The Jurors of Griff and Coton

Part I. Coton Town

3. The Mill on the Wem: Henry Clay of Cuttle Place, Miller (1643-c.1698)

I. The Social Relations of Production of Bread-Corn

II. Grist to the Mill in Chilvers Coton and Beyond

III. The Customers of Cuttle Mill

IV. The Clays as a Farming Family

V. The Miller in the Networks of Power and Authority

VI. From Cuttle Mill to the Wash Lane Malthouse

4. The Vicarage at All Saints: The Reverend John Perkins, Vicar (1638-91)

I. The Reverend John Perkins and His Congregation

II. The Reverend John Perkins in the Pulpit: Preaching, Exhortation, and Communication

III. The Politics of the Deathbed: Ministering to the Sick and Dying

IV. The Exercise of Clerical Hospitality

V. The Clerical Lifestyle

5. A Ribbon-Maker's Cottage on Bridge Street: John Knight, Silk-Weaver (1654‒1721)

I. The 'Silk Manufacture of Ribands' in and around Coventry

II. The Wider Context of Textile Manufacture in Chilvers Coton

III. The Ribbon-Makers of Chilvers Coton

IV. Daniel Hinckley of Astley, silk-master

V. The Livelihood of Ribbon-Weavers

6. The Alehouse in the Bull Ring: Frances Rason, Victualler (1624‒85)

I. The Topography of Commercial Hospitality in Chilvers Coton

II. Living and Dying in Frances Rason's Alehouse

III. Settling the Rason Estate

7. The Forge on Windmill Field Lane: Samuel Brown, Blacksmith (1645‒84)

I. The Blacksmiths of Chilvers Coton.

II. Tools, Tasks, and Technique

III. Samuel Brown Makes a Living

IV. The Taskscape of the Chilvers Coton Blacksmith

V. The Tools in the Shop

8. A House with a Lean-to in the Heath End: Abraham Checkly, Labourer (1647‒1724)

I. Labourers in the Chilvers Coton Census

II. Agricultural Labour on the Arbury Estate

III. Modes of Payment: Piece-Rates and Day-Rates

IV. Time Discipline and Labour Discipline

V. Agricultural Wages, Household Economies, and Standards of Living

VI. The Material Culture of the Labouring Household

9. A Nail-Smith's Cottage in Paradise End: Christopher Smith, Nailer (1632‒96)

I. The Social Relations of Production in Nail Manufacture

II. The Nail-Smiths of Chilvers Coton

III. Robert Nutt of Nuneaton, Ironmonger

IV. Pennies and Piece-Rates

V. Death of a Nail-Smith

Part II. from Wash Lane To Griff

10. A 'Mean Tenement' on Wash Lane: William Nock, Collier (1644‒1710)

I. The Shifting Spatiality of Coalwork

II. Working the Seven-foot Delph, 1684‒9

III. Working the 'New' and 'Deep' Foundations, 1701‒30

IV. Colliers in Chancery

V. Life Expectancy and Material Culture in the Collier's Household

11. 'A House in Two Parts' in Griff: Henry Beighton III, Yeoman (1658‒1724)

I. The Founding and Rise of the Beighton Dynasty

II. The Decline and Fall of the Beighton Dynasty

III. The Unravelling of the Beighton Interest

Part III. Arbury and the Woodland

12. The Household Staff at Arbury Hall (1678‒1710)

I. The Built Environment at Arbury Hall

II. The Size, Composition, and Cost of the Arbury Household Staff

III. Master-Servant Relations

IV. Household Management at Arbury Hall

13. The Mason's Farm on the Arbury Demesne: Andrew Hardy, Bricklayer (1643‒1702)

I. Andrew Hardy Comes to Arbury

II. Hardy as a Mason

III. The Hardys as Dairy Farmers.

IV. Setting the Hardy Children Forth in the World

14. Temple House at Lutman's End: Henry King, Husbandman (1647‒98)

I. The Husbandmen of Chilvers Coton

II. Rental Policy on the Arbury Estate

III. The Tenurial Landscape of Lutman's End

IV. Father, Innkeeper, and Husbandman

V. The Enclosure of the Common Waste of Coton Outwoods

VI. Providing for the King Children's Estate and Calling

VII. Temple House and the Parliamentary Enclosure of Chilvers Coton

15. A 'Middling Farm' in The Woodland: Thomas Nash, Carpenter (1634‒1701)

I. The Shifting Configuration of the Nash Household

II. Thomas Nash as Farmer

III. The Carpenters of Chilvers Coton

IV. Thomas Nash's Carpentry Work at Arbury and Beyond

V. Elizabeth Nash Goes to Lichfield

VI. Elizabeth Nash's Experience of Widowhood: The Parish Badge and the Threat of the Workhouse

Conclusion

16. Space, Place, and Flow

Bibliography

Subject Index

Name Index

Place Index for Venues Outside the Parish of Chilvers Coton

Place Index for Venues Within the Parish of Chilvers Coton.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 27, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Hindle, Steve The Social Topography of a Rural Community

ISBN:

0-19-196450-6

0-19-269473-1

0-19-269472-3

OCLC:

1379438206