English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century by F.M.L. Thompson

Author:F.M.L. Thompson [Thompson, F.M.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781317828532
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-19T01:21:34+00:00

1 Wentworth Woodhouse MSS, G.20, Denison to Lord Fitzwilliam, 10 Aug. 1847, for a comment on the effects of ‘the manner of the Triumph’ of the Anti-Corn Law League.

2 W. Bagehot, The English Constitution (1929 ed.), pp. 266–9, and Introduction to the Second Edition (1872) pp. xxvi, xxx.

3 J.J. Hecht, The Domestic Servant Class in Eighteenth-Century England (1956), p. 2.

4 Farington Diary, III. 280. Northants. C.R.O., Fitzwilliam MSS, General Accounts 1788–1829. Similar results are obtainable from the Raby accounts. Although the totals of different years are comparable, it is not clear in either case whether they record all the servants employed.

5 Herts. C.R.O., Verulam MSS, XI. 81, Assessments to Assessed Taxes, and Gorhambury MSS, 1st Earl’s Diary, allowing that female servants were proportionate to the taxed male servants. Fitzwilliam MSS, General Accounts 1788–1829. Raby MSS, Household accounts 1790–1830. Castle Hill MSS, personal accounts of Lord Fortescue 1790–1828.

6 Verulam MSS, XI. 115 and XI. 121, Consumption Registers 1847–86, and Gorhambury MSS, 1st Earl’s Diary and Attendance Register 1870–86. Raby MSS, Household Accounts 1830–80.

7 G. Ticknor, Life of William Hickling Prescott (1863), p. 304.

8 Savernake MSS, Misc. Deeds, Marquess of Ailesbury and the G.W.R. 15 April 1846.

9 Quoted by Bagehot, The English Constitution, p. 94.

10 Lincs. C.R.O., Monson MSS, Correspondence, 25/10/2/3 no. 79, 27 Jan. 1849; 25/10/4/1 no. 115, 15 Feb. 1855; no. 14, 26 Nov. 1855; 25/10/4/4 no. 23. 17 Oct. 1858.

11 Beds. C.R.O., Harvey MSS, HY 877, Servants’ Wages 1819–20; HY 636, lease of Ickwell Bury House 8 Nov. 1823. Lancs. C.R.O., Blundell MSS, BL 54/16, 54/18, 54/21, steward’s accounts 1832–45. Cumberland C.R.O., Senhouse MSS, 19/165, statement of income and expenditure 1847. Beds. C.R.O., Orlebar MSS, OR 1376, and OR 1377, household and estate accounts 1838–62. Lyall (Brooks) MSS, LL 17/234, statement of income and expenditure 1836; LL 17/284, a description of Flit wick House and grounds 1838.

12 Belvoir MSS, House Steward’s accounts 1810–15. Farington Diary, V. 297. Harvey MSS, HY 877. Lyall (Brooks) MSS, LL 17/234, LL 17/278, account book 1888–93.

13 Blundell MSS, BL 12/1, C. Blundell to J. Spencer 27 March 1800. Senhouse MSS, 19/34, W. Elliott to H. Senhouse, 19 Nov. 1810. Belvoir MSS, House Steward’s accounts 1810. Lyall (Brooks) MSS, LL 17/234. Gorhambury MSS, 2nd Earl of Verulam’s Diary, 1847.

14 Hecht, Domestic Servant Class, pp. 158–168. Verulam MSS, XI. 81, General Accounts 1809–11.

15 Gorhambury MSS, 2nd Earl’s Diary 1847, 1856, 1868, 1889. Lyall (Brooks) MSS, LL 17/234, 17/278, Account book 1888–93.

16 A. H. H. Matthews, Fifty Tears of Agricultural Politics, 1866–1916 (1916) pp. 379–82.

17 Many references in the 1850s and 1860s; for example Economist, 1 Feb. 1851, p. 116, 20 Feb. 1864, p. 230.

18 Wilton MSS, Memo. Book 1834–40, Dec. 1834 and Dec. 1837. Monson MSS, 25/10/2/4 no. 98, 27 March 1850.

19 Monson MSS, 25/10/2/3 no. 5, 7 Dec. 1849; 25/10/2/4 no. 78, 13 June 1850; 25/10/3/1 no. 20, 17 Nov. 1851, no. 19, 22 Nov. 1851; 25/10/3/2 no. 77b, 2 March 1852.

20 Fitzwilliam MSS, Letter book, 732, 23 Aug., 10 Sept., and 17 Sept. 1832.

21 Monson MSS, 25/10/2/4 no.

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