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- Title
Tenant farming and short-term leasing on Romney Marsh, 1587-1705.
- Authors
Hipkin, Stephen
- Abstract
The dynamics of tenant farming and short-term leasing dynamics in Romney Marsh provide answers to the issues relating to land ownership and occupation in the rural economy of early modern England. With the failure of the English peasantry to establish control over the land, landlords were enabled to consolidate, enclose and create large farms and to lease them to capitalist tenants. This role by the landlords is crucial in England's agrarian history. Along with the landlords, there also emerged the larger tenant farmer. These tenant farmers played a major role in the evolution of taxation in Romney Marsh and the evolution of English capitalism in general.
- Subjects
ROMNEY Marsh (England : Marsh); ENGLAND; LANDLORD-tenant relations; LAND tenure; LANDOWNERS; REAL property; AGRICULTURAL taxes; FARMERS; TAXATION
- Publication
Economic History Review, 2000, Vol 53, Issue 4, p646
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0289.00173