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Re-estimating Crop Yields from Probate Inventories: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Mark Overton
Mark Overton
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The author is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle upon Tyne NEI 7RU. United Kingdom.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 931 - 935
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1990

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References

1 Allen, Robert C., “Inferring Yields from Probate Inventories,” this Journal, 48 (03 1988), pp. 117–25:Google ScholarOverton, Mark, “Estimating Crop Yields from Probate Inventories: An Example from East Anglia. 1585–1735” this Journal. 39 (06 1979). pp. 363–78.Google Scholar My method has been used by Glennie, Paul. “Continuity and Change in Hertfordshire Agriculture. 1550–1700: 11—Crop Yields and their Determinants.” Agricultural History Review, 36 (1988) pp. 145–61Google Scholar.

2 Allen. “Inferring Yields,” p. 117Google Scholar.

3 This is Allen’s notation, which differs from that in my original articleGoogle Scholar.

4 Overton, “Estimating Crop Yields,” pp. 370. 374Google Scholar.

5 This point is treated in more detail by Glennie, Paul. “Measuring Crop Yields in Early Modern England,” in Campbell, Bruce and Overton, Mark. eds.. Land, Labour and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity (Manchester. 1991)Google Scholar.

6 A correction factor for my original estimates that takes account of these costs is in Overion, Mark. “Agricultural Productivity in Eighteenth-Century England: Some Further Speculations,”Economic History Review, 2nd series. 37 (05 1984). p. 250. fn. 37Google Scholar.

7 This I developed in Overton, Mark. “The Determinants of Crop Yields in Early Modern England,” in Campbell and Overton. eds.. Land, Labour and LivestockGoogle Scholar.

8 These figures are reproduced in Campbell, Bruce M. S.. “Land. Labour, Livestock and Productivity Trends in English Seignorial Agriculture. 1208–1450,” in Campbell and Overton, eds., Land. Labour and Livestock. and are the subject of a separate article: Bruce Campbell and Mark Overton. “Five Centuries of Farming: Norfolk Agriculture. 1250–1750.” in preparationGoogle Scholar.

9 Overton, “Estimating Crop Yields,” p. 375Google Scholar.

10 Allen, “Inferring Yields,” p. 123, table 3Google Scholar.

11 Probate inventories, probate accounts, and disputes over probate in the Church courts will be the basis of such further researchGoogle Scholar.