The management of rural building in seventeenthy–century buckinghamshire

Vernacular Architecture

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-56

  Airs, Malcolm ^a   Broad, John ^a  

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EID: 12944315504     PISSN: 03055477     EISSN: 17496292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/vea.1998.29.1.43     Document Type: Article

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1. The documents wete discovered by John Broad who has contributed the sections on their local context and who would like to thank Sir Ralph Verney and Edmund Verney for their assistance in using the Verney papers at Claydon over many years. The authors would also like to thank Mrs. Billie Johnson of Pasture Farm for her help and hospitality. The analysis and discussion was written by Malcolm Airs who is heavily indebted to Blake Tyson and Bob Machin for their patience in reading several earlier drafts of this paper and for making many suggestions. The authors would like to thank John Gibbs, Cartographer at the University of North London for drawing the maps.
2. C., Dyer, 'History and Vernacular Architecture', Vernacular Architecture, 28 (1997), 1–8.
3. W.G., Hoskins, 'The Rebuilding of Rural England, 1570-1640', Past and Present, no.4 (Nov. 1953), 44–59.
4. J.W., Laughton, 'The Houte that John Built: A Study of the Building of a 17th Century House in Chester', Jour. of the Chester Archaeological Society, 70 (1987–8), 99–132.
5. R., Machin (ed), 'The Building Accounts of Mapperton Rectory 1699-1703', Dorset Record Soc. 8 (1983).
6. A., Bagot & J., Munby (eds.), 'All Things is Well Here', Letters from Hugh James of Levens to James Gralune, 1692-5', Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, Record Series, X (1988), 189.
7. Oxford Brookes University Ph.D. thesis, 1995.
8. Men at Work: Labourers and Building Craftsmen in the Towns of Northern England, 1450–1750, Cambridge, 1995.
9. Reprinted in C., Dyer, Everyday Life in Medieval England, London, 1994, 133–166.
10. Malcolm, Airs, The Tudor and Jacobean Country House, Stroud, 1995.
11. J., Broad, 'The Verneys and Sequestration in the Civil Wars, 1642-56', Records of Bucks, (1986).
12. 'An Essay Concerning the Decay of Rents and their Remedies', B.L. Sloane MS.3828, f.208.
13. M.A., Havinden ed., Household and Farm Inventories inOxfordshire, 1550–1590, Oxon. Record. Soc., xliv, (1965), 258.
14. F.G., Emmison ed., Jacobean Household Inventories, Beds. Hist. Record Soc., XX, (1938), 59.
15. PRO. E179/80/354; A Thomas Kent and a John Kent are also recorded in an East Claydon highway rate of 1682 (Claydon House MSS Reel 9).
16. There are many copies of the terms of the 1632 Exchequer decree. This is taken from Bucks. CRO, D/AF/2/2.3. For a more detailed account of Bernwood in the period see J., Broad and R., Hoyle, Bernwood: The Life and Afterlife of a Forest, Preston (1997).
17. See Buchanan, Sharpe, In Contempt of all Authority: Rural Artisans and Riot in the West of England, 1586-1660, Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, (1980), esp. 143ff.
18. The Builder's Dictionary., (1734), vol. II, under Timber.
19. Oxon.C.R.O., Croke Papers 0/14/F1/2.
20. 2nd edn., (1726), 45. The Builder's Dictionary, as withmuch of its text, plagiarises this passage from Neve with minor alterations.
21. R., Machin, Rural Housing: An Historical Approach, The Historical Association, (1994), 29.