Society in the Elizabethan age . M Y L. E T T S 3. BRADWELL CHURCH Plate 26-7. AN ELIZABETHAN HAMLET. (From an Original Piatt of the Manor of Brad-well Essex.) The Tenant. 27 violent land-fever raged in town and country. The Crownwas a ready seller, and found still more eager buyers. Thesenew men, officials, merchants, lawyers, usurers, jostled theancient owners, impoverished by mismanagement and ex-travagance, and each other. Both alike joined in an attemptto wrest from the sub-tenant his vested interest 01 fixity oftenure in the land. The history of this struggle is well seen in the ca
Society in the Elizabethan age . M Y L. E T T S 3. BRADWELL CHURCH Plate 26-7. AN ELIZABETHAN HAMLET. (From an Original Piatt of the Manor of Brad-well Essex.) The Tenant. 27 violent land-fever raged in town and country. The Crownwas a ready seller, and found still more eager buyers. Thesenew men, officials, merchants, lawyers, usurers, jostled theancient owners, impoverished by mismanagement and ex-travagance, and each other. Both alike joined in an attemptto wrest from the sub-tenant his vested interest 01 fixity oftenure in the land. The history of this struggle is well seen in the case of sucha manor as that of Conisboro, which had been granted byLetters Patent of Elizabeth, at the beginning of her reign, toHenry Carey, Baron Hunsdon, her own cousin in other copyholders of that manor was one JohnGlasdall, described as yeoman, whose father of the same namehad died nearly twenty years back seised of forty acres, asof fee according to the custom of the said manor, all ofwhich descended and came, as of right it oug
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