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
The clerk of works
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
As I compute what the workmanship will come to when the manner of finishing it is laid down, it will certainly prevent uneasiness in your lordship when you are sure the workmen cannot wrong you. And it will save me a great deal of trouble in looking after them, for I shall take care to descibe the method in such a manner in the contract … that they shall want no further instructions till the work is finished.
Daniel Eaton to Lord Cardigan, 1727The era of the later Stuarts was a period of massive rebuilding or extending of mansions, stables and gardens. Tudor houses, no matter how charming to modern eyes, were characterised by low ceilings, inconveniently large dining halls, gargantuan staircases leading too often to draughty, unappealing passageways, and cluttered mullioned windows which were ill-suited to revealing increasingly elaborate gardens and grounds. Such houses were replaced by mansions on a grander scale, high ceilinged, lit by large sash windows, equipped with dining rooms which were designed to seat the family and their guests in some degree of intimacy and privacy, despite their grandeur, rather than the whole household as in earlier centuries. Architects like Wren, Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh and Talman and their less famous competitors laboured to meet the demands of noblemen and the greater gentry for elaborate seats which would not merely house them in greater comfort but also symbolise and indeed assert their wealth and their status in the county hierarchy.
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- Stewards, Lords and PeopleThe Estate Steward and his World in Later Stuart England, pp. 236 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992