5 Horn, “Social and Economic Aspects of Local Society in England and the Chesapeake,” 126-28; see also idem, “The Distribution of Wealth in the Vale of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, 1660-1700,” SH 3 (1981), 81-110.

6 On the nexus of land, family and politics see John Randolph to Sir Justinian Isham, 7 March 1660, Isham Mss. 499, NHANTSRO.

7 Bruce computed the size of land grants as follows:

Year

Mean

Maximum

1607-50

442

5,350

1650-1700

674

20,000

Source: Philip A. Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., 1895, New York, 1935), I, 532.