The Townshends and their World

Gentry, Law, and Land in Norfolk c.1450-1551

By: C. E. Moreton

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Hardcover | 30 July 1992

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This is the first scholarly history of the rise of the Townshends, who were to become the most famous landowning family in Norfolk. C. E. Moreton exploits to the full the rich family archives in order to tell the story of individuals such as Roger Townshend I, a prominent lawyer of the late fifteenth century, and his son, also Roger, a leading country gentleman. Dr Moreton traces the growth in the Townshends' wealth and power in the late Middle Ages, and sets them in their context as a major gentry family. Their lawsuits, their estates policy, and their sheep-farming activities reveal much about the nature of the gentry's relationship to land and its role in local society in late medieval and early Tudor England.

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`he has observations to make on the strength of county identities which are fascinating ... It is a picture of the Townshends and their circle, as an essentially law-abiding and law-seeking group, which challenges many cherished assumptions about gentry attitudes to authority. Maddern's is an important, original and compelling book. It brings powerful new insights to a subject with which most historians of late-medieval society probably thought they were familiar.' Times Literary Supplement 'This book is a valuable addition to our knowledge of the English gentry. Two Sir Roger Townshends, father and son, are thoroughly examined; indeed, they are interrogated and duly incriminate themselves as the nuisances only English gentlemen can be.' C.F. Richmond,

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List of Maps and Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Note on Manuscript Sources: The Townshend Papers
Introduction	p. 1
The Family	p. 5
The Townshends and their County	p. 50
The Townshends and the Law	p. 82
Estate, Wealth, and Household	p. 115
Sheep	p. 162
Conclusions	p. 191
App 1. Townshend Trustees	p. 197
App 2. Roger II's Book of Assessments for the Loan of 1522/3	p. 202
App 3. Resident Norfolk Gentry in the Mid-1520s	p. 203
App 4. Norfolk Landowners assessed at 100 pounds or more for the 1524/5 Subsidy	p. 210
App 5. Gentry Members of the 11 February 1526 Commission of the Peace, in Order of Precedence	p. 211
App 6. Townshend Manors	p. 212
App 7. Settlements of Roger II	p. 221
App 8. Norfolk Landowners, Mid-1520s	p. 224
App 9. The Townshend Flocks	p. 225
App 10. Townshend Sheep Sales and Purchases	p. 227
App 11. Wool Sales	p. 243
App 12. Townshend Sheep Purchases in the 1540s	p. 246
App 13. Townshend Sheep Valors	p. 247
Bibliography 1. Manuscript Sources	p. 248
Bibliography 2. Printed Sources	p. 252
Index	p. 267
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The Townshends and their World

Gentry, Law, and Land in Norfolk c.1450-1551

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