The Hornby Castle Estates
The Book
This book describes change on the Hornby Castle estates from about 1580 to the middle of the eighteenth century. It is clear that these changes were partly driven by events within the estates - particularly the power struggles between the lord of the manor and his tenants. However external events such as the Civil War and economic factors such as the ever increasing livestock trades or the transfer of the hemp cloth trade to Lancaster also had their effect.
The Author
Jennifer S. Holt is an economic and social historian whose recent publications include The Diary of Thomas Fenwick Esq (List & Index Society, 47-50, 2011-12), ‘A new view of the Fells: Sarah Fell of Swarthmoor and her cashbook’ in Richard W. Hoyle (ed.), The Farmer in England, 1650-1980 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 43-68, ‘The financial rewards of winning the battle for secure customary tenure’ in Jane Whittle (ed.), Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney’s Agrarian Problem Revisited (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013), pp. 133-49, ‘Mitchelgate and Bichill Cross, Kirkby Lonsdale’, Nomina, 36 (2013), 125-33, and ‘James Dowker’s Daughters: Benefactors of Kendal’, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 3rd ser., 14 (2014), 187-206.
Reviews
‘[T]he introductory section preceding the transcribed documents excels itself in its extent (224 pages) and its quality. … [T]his is a splendid piece of work which is clearly written, well bound on quality paper and will provide source material for students of agricultural and rural history, as well as those interested in vernacular architecture and social change.’ Agricultural History Review, 67 (2019), 139-40
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