2 T. H. Swales, “The Redistribution of the Monastic Lands in Norfolk at the Dissolution,” NA 34 (1966-69), 14-44; Francis Blomefield, An Essay towards a Topographical History of Norfolk (11 vols., 1805).
3 William Hunt, The Puritan Moment: The Coming of Revolution in an English County (Cambridge, 1983), 15.
4 Chalkin, Seventeenth Century Kent, 50; Everitt, The Community of Kent in the Great Rebellion, 35.
5 Of the county of Essex, Felix Hull writes, “The following points stand out. The first is the great proportion represented by the agrarian proletariat holding less than five acres; the second is the comparative uniformity in the statistics.” Hull reckoned that in the county of Essex generally, holders of five acres or less amounted to 40% of manorial tenants. Similar patterns appeared throughout the eastern counties. In Norfolk and Suffolk, R. H. Tawney calculated that 54% of the copyholders had less than ten acres. See Felix Hull, “Agriculture and Rural Society in Essex, 1560-1640” (thesis, Univ. of London, 1950), I, 75, 477; R. H. Tawney, The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (London, 1912), 63.