The Estates of the English Crown, 1558-1640

List of tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations List of Pubic Record Office classes cited 1. Introduction: aspects of the Crown's estate, c. 1558-1640 Richard Hoyle 2. The Elizabethan Crown lands their purposes and problems David Thomas 3. The Elizabethan Duchy of Cornwall, an estate in stasis Graham Haslam 4. Exchequer officials and the market in Crown property, 1558-1640 Madeleine Gray 5. Power, patronage and politics: office-holding and administration on the Crown's estates in Wales Madeleine Gray 6. Tenure on the Elizabethan estates Richard Hoyle 7. Leases of Crown lands in the reign of Elizabeth I David Thomas 8. Customary tenure on the Elizabethan estates Richard Hoyle 9. 'Shearing the hog': the reform of the estates, c. 1598-1640 Richard Hoyle 10. Jacobean Phoenix: the Duchy of Cornwall in the principates of Henry Frederick and Charles Graham Haslam 11. The Crown as projector on its own estates, from Elizabeth I to Charles I Joan Thirsk 12. Disafforestation and drainage: the Crown as entrepreneur? Richard Hoyle 13. From swanimote to disafforestation: Feckenham Forest in the early seventeenth century Peter Large 14. Reflections on the history of the Crown lands, 1558-1640 Richard Hoyle Index

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