The Estates of the English Crown, 1558–1640

List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of Pubic Record Office classes cited; 1. Introduction: aspects of the Crown's estate, c. 1558–1640 Richard Hoyle; 2. The Elizabethan Crown lands; their purposes and problems David Thomas; 3. The Elizabethan Duchy of Cornwall, an estate in stasis Graham Haslam; 4. Exchequer officials and the market in Crown property, 1558–1640 Madeleine Gray; 5. Power, patronage and politics: office-holding and administration on the Crown's estates in Wales Madeleine Gray; 6. Tenure on the Elizabethan estates Richard Hoyle; 7. Leases of Crown lands in the reign of Elizabeth I David Thomas; 8. Customary tenure on the Elizabethan estates Richard Hoyle; 9. 'Shearing the hog': the reform of the estates, c. 1598–1640 Richard Hoyle; 10. Jacobean Phoenix: the Duchy of Cornwall in the principates of Henry Frederick and Charles Graham Haslam; 11. The Crown as projector on its own estates, from Elizabeth I to Charles I Joan Thirsk; 12. Disafforestation and drainage: the Crown as entrepreneur? Richard Hoyle; 13. From swanimote to disafforestation: Feckenham Forest in the early seventeenth century Peter Large; 14. Reflections on the history of the Crown lands, 1558–1640 Richard Hoyle; Index.