By Angus J.L. Winchester
This illustrated environmental heritage of rural lifestyles in Northern England and the Scottish Borders within the past due medieval and early smooth classes explores the connection among society and the surroundings - the ways that people spoke back to and used the surroundings during which they lived.The writer makes use of the orders and byelaws made via manorial courts to accumulate an image of the way pastoral society within the Pennine, Lake District and Border hills husbanded the assets of the uplands. It deals an upland, pastoral paradigm of land use, the administration of universal land, and the transition from medieval to early-modern farming structures to stability the huge literature at the agrarian background of the lowlands.The geographical scope of the e-book contains the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, the Border hills, the North Pennines and the woodland of Bowland. via a full of life textual content and punctiliously chosen illustrations the writer captures the distinct neighborhood tradition of conventional pastoral groups in those muc
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Watts 1971, pp. 75–8; Searle 1986, pp. 109–15. Watts 1971, p. 80. Alston Moor, leases for 999 years (1611–16): Hutchinson 1794, i, p. ; Nidderdale, 3,000 years and 1,300 years (1603–14): Jennings 1967, pp. 127–8; Wensleydale, 2,000 years (1620s): Fieldhouse 1980, pp. 175–6. Hoyle 1987, p. ; Fieldhouse and Jennings 1978, pp. 117–21. Winchester 1998; Jennings 1967, p. 129. Raistrick and Jennings 1965, pp. 46–54; LRO, DDSa/29/1; PRO, DL30/32/281. Thirsk 1967, pp. 24–5; Appleby 1978, pp. 109–54. Swain 1986, pp.
5, 11. 24 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. THE HARVEST OF THE HILLS Cal. Inq. Misc. iii, no. 222; vii, no. 519; Raistrick and Jennings 1965, pp. 98–102. McDonnell 1990, p. 31; Tupling 1927, p. 235. Sanderson 1891, p. 85; Watts 1971, p. 70; Fieldhouse and Jennings 1978, pp. 135–40; Fleming 1998, p. 56. Winchester 1987, pp. 54–5; Tupling 1927, p. 77; Michelmore 1981.
Fieldhouse 1980, p. 178; Winchester 1978, p. 128. Thirsk 1984, pp. 5, 32, 61. Harrison 1967, p. 102. Cf. DUL, DPR Reg. IVa, f. 13 (Robt Hall, Redesdale, 1578); DPR 1618, Jenkin Hunter. Thirsk 1967, pp. 186–7. This pattern has been noted in Bowland and west Cumberland: Ironfield 1978, p. 37; Winchester 1978, pp. 124–5. Fieldhouse and Jennings 1978, p. 152. Thirsk 1967, p. 22. Marshall 1980; Fieldhouse and Jennings 1978, pp. 151–2. Fieldhouse and Jennings 1978, pp. 149–54; Fieldhouse 1980, pp. 178–9, 182.