The acre-ocracy of England: a list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards, with their possessions and incomes, arranged under their various counties, also their colleges and clubs;

Bateman John 1951-

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ISHI OF ENGLANDTHE ACRE-OCRACY OWNERS OF ACRES CULLED FROM DOMESDAY BOOK3000 UC-NRLF, ^^"^^a-^ii$B ^v t_ V' *i^ n/^ * PiccadillyPICKERING 196 1876BASIL MONTAGU REESE LIBRARY \ OF CALIFORNIA.UNIVERSITY JUN 14 1893 . ,So . L%:cc:iv,U -^ ^ '^'7 ^Iccessions No. Cla%s No. THE ACRE-OCRACY OF ENGLAND. « ^^,1? sy^cz^7 PREFACE. •«3a^5a^^sS'HAT the affairs of one's neighbours are of no little interest men of every class of lifeto has perhaps never been more strongly proved than the production of and great demand forby Modern Domesday Book." Not only have Mr."The analyzedFrederick Purdey and others it, Mr. Lyulph Mr. Bright moved its digestion inStanley abused it, John "and the Spectator" and otherLondon journalsthe House, immense herdscathingly criticised it, but the of country reproduced it, as far as their ownnewspapers have actually are concerned, in their columns, much,neighbourhoods probably, to the satisfaction of the bulk of readers, towhom the work as a whole) istwenty-six shillings (the price of an example of this, I may mention, thatprohibitory. As small party in my house during one of thosehaving a 'twixt the close of theweeks which come indubious beginning of the London season, I washunting and the cares as to the amusement of mysaved all Marthean about on the table the two hugeguests simply by leaving " Modern Domesday," over which I foundvolumes of The or moreutmost constancy two heads.bowed with the — Preface.

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• Real property
• England

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 27
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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ISHI
OF ENGLANDTHE ACRE-OCRACY
OWNERS OF ACRES CULLED FROM DOMESDAY BOOK3000
UC-NRLF,
^^"^^a-^ii$B ^v t_
V'
*i^
n/^
*
PiccadillyPICKERING 196 1876BASIL MONTAGUREESE LIBRARY \
OF CALIFORNIA.UNIVERSITY
JUN 14 1893
. ,So .
L%:cc:iv,U
-^ ^ '^'7 ^Iccessions No. Cla%s No.THE ACRE-OCRACY OF ENGLAND.
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in 2007 with funding from
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ACRE-OCRACY OF ENGLAND
A LIST ALLOF OWNERS OF
THREE THOUSAND ACRES
AND UPWARDS
WITH THEIR POSSESSIONS AND INCOMES ARRANGED
UNDER THEIR VARIOUS COUNTIES ALSO
THEIR COLLEGES AND CLUBS
CULLED FROM
BY BATEMANJOHN
ALDI
ANOLVS
.t^lM?^
OF TNi
UNIVEBSITT
LONDON
BASIL MONTAGU PICKERING
Piccadilly196
18766»>«
^^,1?
sy^cz^7PREFACE.
•«3a^5a^^sS'HAT the affairs of one's neighbours are of no
little interest men of every class of lifeto has
perhaps never been more strongly proved than
the production of and great demand forby
Modern Domesday Book." Not only have Mr."The
analyzedFrederick Purdey and others it, Mr. Lyulph
Mr. Bright moved its digestion inStanley abused it, John
"and the Spectator" and otherLondon journalsthe House,
immense herdscathingly criticised it, but the of country
reproduced it, as far as their ownnewspapers have actually
are concerned, in their columns, much,neighbourhoods
probably, to the satisfaction of the bulk of readers, towhom
the work as a whole) istwenty-six shillings (the price of
an example of this, I may mention, thatprohibitory. As
small party in my house during one of thosehaving a
'twixt the close of theweeks which come indubious
beginning of the London season, I washunting and the
cares as to the amusement of mysaved all Marthean
about on the table the two hugeguests simply by leaving
" Modern Domesday," over which I foundvolumes of The
or moreutmost constancy two heads.bowed with the—
Preface.vi
ofmy guests thatI heard from one the copy of the work
the "Carlton" was reduced to rags and tattersat within a
of its arrival— lesson whichfortnight a was not wasted on
of mythe library committee own club, who caused the
bound as to defy anythingbook to be so short of a twelve-
year-old school-boy.
Mr. Lyulph Stanley finds great fault with the carelessness
"of some of the entries in Domesday,"—faults which, it
admitted, are most perplexingmust be to the compiler
faults in spelling, faults in description of residence, gross
initialling infrequent doublefaults as to the of names, not
entries of the same man, first as then as and in theJohn, J.,
least, thesame fashion through the alphabet ; and not
almost invariable mixing up of a parson's glebe land, or
possession in his public capacity of parish priest, with
his private acreage, as what Sydney Smith dubbed a
stumbling-block in the way of"squarson." One huge
the perfection is the large number of double-work's
England, suchbarrelled (if I may use the term) names in
Vernon-Harcourt, toas Hart-Dyke, Leveson-Gower, and
"perfect mitrailleuses" as Rouse-say naught of such
and Butler-Clarke-Southwell-Wandes-Boughton-Knight
for acres under every oneforde. This necessitates a search
of bracketed family names.the
direction,the difficulty lies in a very differentIn Wales
names in fact,the almost desperate simplicity of ;i.e. in
Wales isgranted that two-thirds ofit may be taken for
andof Davies, Evans,owned by the families Jones,
Williams.
compiler's sake there hadthat for the wretchedWould
" existence Thatfew more Sir Watkins" in !been a
" Wales" will, I liope (notdeservedly popular King of