Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- The rise of the estate steward
- The steward's career
- The whole duty of a steward
- Between lord and tenant
- Returns to London
- The ambassador
- Tending the interest
- The almoner
- Filling the pulpit
- The constable: defending the manor
- The constable: defending the forests
- Exploiting the estate
- The clerk of works
- Master and man
- A note on the manuscript sources
- Index
- Title in the series
Tending the interest
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- The rise of the estate steward
- The steward's career
- The whole duty of a steward
- Between lord and tenant
- Returns to London
- The ambassador
- Tending the interest
- The almoner
- Filling the pulpit
- The constable: defending the manor
- The constable: defending the forests
- Exploiting the estate
- The clerk of works
- Master and man
- A note on the manuscript sources
- Index
- Title in the series
Summary
One of your members of Parliament is dead. I here have sent down my man post to let you know that I would stand to be chosen either this or the ensuing parliament. Pray let me know what interest you can make and if you think fit I will come down presently and stand … Pray see about and make what friends you can.
Sir James Ashe to John Snow, 1698Mr Adams, If either Sir Roger Mostyn or Sir George Warburton, one or both of them, stand for Cheshire as Parliament men I would have you take especial care all my interest appears for them, letting me know the names of each particular person (if such there be) who do not comply with this my reasonable desire. Pray be very careful and stirring herein.
Lord Cholmondeley, 1701We have seen that the period from the outbreak of the Civil War to the fall of the Protectorate represented a watershed for the estate steward and his role. After the Restoration absenteeism among landowners increased markedly, and one reason for this was increased attendance at Parliament which now became more fully a permanent institution rather than an event. Charles II ruled continuously without Parliament for four years and his brother for three but these were the exceptions which prove the rule.
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- Stewards, Lords and PeopleThe Estate Steward and his World in Later Stuart England, pp. 136 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992