Estate Management in Eighteenth Century Kent
Mingay, G.E.
Agricultural History Review, Volume 4 part 2 (1956)
Abstract
Documentary evidenceofthe way in which landlords actually managed their estates is invaluable in broadening our knoMedge of eighteenth-century agriculture. A modern historian, Prof. H. J. Habakkuk, in his well-known article on landownership has given us a striking picture of estate development in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire and has stimulated interest in the growth of estates elsewhere. Moreover, the contemporary accounts of estate management provided by such writers as Edward Laurence and John Richards,” although valuable, indicate what landowners ought to have done rather than what they actually did, and it is in ascertaining the latter that estate records are so important.
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