Illuminations and distortions

This critique of King's well-known Scheme of the social order in 1688 examines his purposes, the Scheme's evolutionary process, and the taxation data (hearth, poll, window, and marriage duty) that King used to construct it, before contrasting his conclusions with recent research. His social hierarchy emerges as a rather crude and backward-looking stereotype based on too many intelligent guesses, with his treatment of the poorer families being least satisfactory. Overall, King's population totals appear sound, his national income estimate low, and various mean household sizes and family and children's totals unreliable

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• Settlement, Poor Law and the Rural Historian

  Open Access•K D M Snell•Rural History•1992

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• Changing Patterns of Poor Relief in Some English Rural Parishes Circa 1650–1750

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• British Economic Growth, 1688-1959. Trends and Structure

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• The World We Have Gained

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• The Social Distribution of Land and Men in England, 1436-1700

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• Augustan England

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• Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England

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• The History of Local Rates in England

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• English Social History

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• London Inhabitants within the walls 1965

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