Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of maps
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction ‘Terms we did not understand’: landscape, place and perceptions
- 1 Social relations and popular culture in early modern England
- Part I The structures of inequality
- Part II The conditions of community
- Part III The politics of social conflict
- 9 ‘Pyllage uppon the poore mynorz’: sources of social conflict, 1500-1600
- 10 ‘All is hurly burly here’: local histories of social conflict, 1600-1640
- 11 The peak in context: riot and popular politics in early Stuart England
- 12 ‘Prerogative hath many proctors’: the English Revolution and the plebeian politics of the Peak, 1640–1660
- 13 The experience of defeat? The defence of custom, 1660–1770
- 14 The making of the English working class in the Derbyshire Peak Country
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
10 - ‘All is hurly burly here’: local histories of social conflict, 1600-1640
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of maps
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction ‘Terms we did not understand’: landscape, place and perceptions
- 1 Social relations and popular culture in early modern England
- Part I The structures of inequality
- Part II The conditions of community
- Part III The politics of social conflict
- 9 ‘Pyllage uppon the poore mynorz’: sources of social conflict, 1500-1600
- 10 ‘All is hurly burly here’: local histories of social conflict, 1600-1640
- 11 The peak in context: riot and popular politics in early Stuart England
- 12 ‘Prerogative hath many proctors’: the English Revolution and the plebeian politics of the Peak, 1640–1660
- 13 The experience of defeat? The defence of custom, 1660–1770
- 14 The making of the English working class in the Derbyshire Peak Country
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Summary
The potential for conflict over customary law in general, and mining custom in particular, was realized in the Peak Country during the period between the end of Elizabeth's reign and the outbreak of the civil war. Miners and tenants struggled with the greater gentry, nobility and clergy of the region over a series of connected issues: free mining custom; the enclosure of common land; the denial of common rights; and parochial tithes. The subject matter of such disputes was far from exceptional. Across early Stuart England, but especially in the pastoral-industrial uplands, in forests and in the East Anglian fens, custom and common right were hotly contested between lord and tenant, minister and parish, landed and landless. What made local disputes in the Peak unusual was their connected character, their longevity and seriousness, and the relatively clear social division which separated opposing sides. This chapter will chart the twists and turns in the development of that conflict. It will focus first of all upon developments within the Wapentake of Wirksworth, describing in turn the renewed struggle over mining rights; the conflict between the parishioners and minister of Wirksworth; and the intervention of the central state to crush the right of free mining in the Dovegang circuit just north of Wirksworth town. Attention will then turn north to consider developments within the High Peak, charting the struggles over the lead tithe, enclosure and free mining rights.
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- The Politics of Social ConflictThe Peak Country, 1520–1770, pp. 218 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999