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
Filling the pulpit
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
Parson Roberts … is either dead or past recovery so that you must speedily resolve whom to present … Several have come to me within a few days to procure my letter to you which I have refused, and in regard I heard one Mr B. of the Wheme … intends to wait upon you on his son's behalf I take the boldness to give you this caution that I am informed both are inclined to tippling and withall very quarrelsome, not becoming his coat.
Thomas Hawkes to Sir Thomas Thynne, 1680Really Mr Jackson is a very good plain preacher, in my opinion, as any minister I do know of his age, but yet for all it will be a very hard matter to give some people in the parish content for they are heady and high minded and lifted up in the imaginations of their own hearts.
John Drew to Sir Richard Holford, 1703On most estates of any size the lord held one or more advowsons, the right to appoint ministers of religion to the local parish churches. These were important elements in the cornucopia of patronage which a lord might control for such positions were eagerly sought, and the lord was likely to be approached by many hopeful candidates even where the stipend and revenues of the local church were meagre.
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- Stewards, Lords and PeopleThe Estate Steward and his World in Later Stuart England, pp. 173 - 185Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992