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 |
|
|
1650-1700 |
|
|
Source: Philip A. Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., 1895, New York, 1935), I, 532.