About Freehold’s Return in the Early Modern England

Vinokurova, Marina

doi:10.18254/S0002532-4-1

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S207987840002532-4-1

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10.18254/S0002532-4-1

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Marina Vinokurova Send message

Occupation: Senior Research Fellow
Affiliation: Institute of World History RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

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Volume 9 Issue 9 (73)

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The article is devoted to an important social problem of high return of borough freehold possessions’ small plots, which were typically close to borough burgage or seisin — possessions of free usage and disposal, protected by special governmental assizas. The research is based on the Survey of the Manors of Rochdale in the County of Lancaster, parcel of the Possessions of the Worshipful Sir Robert Heath, Knt., His Majesty’s Attorney General, made in 1626 — on the material of borough Wardleworth (the center of 20 Rochdale manors). As far as the data of the survey testify, small plots’ freehold return was very high both on the lands of noble and peasant possessors; its level was dozens and hundreds times higher in the comparison with the annual rents of the very same plots — the fact, testifying about the efficiency of the land and the ways of its economic utilization. It’s also obvious that among borough freeholders there were a number of a noble representatives of the local Rochdale’s possessive gentry elite, including persons of rather high social rank, derived from noble ancestors, inhabited Lancashire village long ago. These representatives penetrated into copyhold land in the Rochdale manors, as well as acquired plots of profitable freehold in the borough of manorial type Wardleworth. Most likely, they used them for accumulating fleece in the warehouses, had built on the land of the plots. This or that, but the profit from the plots was really extremely high and allowed the gentry to be considered the richest people among the Rochdale’s inhabitants. Last but not least, the free status itself guaranteed the possibility of acquirement of profitable land in the Wardleworth, as well as possibility of free disposal of the lands, including the opportunity of net profit’s extraction.

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England, Early Modern period, Lancashire, freehold, seisin, possession, manor, borough, return, rent

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GOST	Vinokurova M. About Freehold’s Return in the Early Modern England // ISTORIYA. – 2018. – V. 9. – Issue 9 (73). URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840002532-4-1/. DOI: 10.18254/S0002532-4-1
MLA	Vinokurova, Marina "About Freehold’s Return in the Early Modern England." ISTORIYA. 9.9 (73) (2018). DOI: 10.18254/S0002532-4-1
APA	Vinokurova M. (2018). About Freehold’s Return in the Early Modern England. ISTORIYA. vol. 9, no. 9 (73) DOI: 10.18254/S0002532-4-1

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