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Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: Wardship in Britain, 1485–1660(Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series)

Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: Wardship in Britain, 1485–1660(Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series)


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Secure property rights are widely considered to be an essential prerequisite for sustained economic development; in Britain it is debated whether they have been secure since the medieval period or only established in the mid-seventeenth century. Within this context, Sean Bottomley examines wardship - the Crown's prerogative right(s) to appropriate landed estates which had descended to a legal minor until they attained their majority, to take custody of the child and, where they were unmarried, to decide their marriage partner. Bottomley demonstrates that this constituted a significant yet grossly inefficient and corrupted source of crown revenue, one that inflicted tangible economic penalties. It was also indicative of the decaying capacity of the early Stuart state and Bottomley concludes that without the constitutional changes of the mid to late seventeenth-century, Britain would not have industrialised in the eighteenth-century.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Wardship and the feudal incidents, 1066–1540; 3. The court of wards and liveries, 1540–1642; 4. The court of wards: officers and servants; 5. The early Stuart fiscal-state; 6. Law in the court of wards; 7. The economic consequences of wardship; 8. 'Like horses in Smithfielde'. buying a wardship; 9. Wardship and the wars of the three kingdoms; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author :
Sean Bottomley is an economic historian at Cardiff University. His first book, The British Patent System during the Industrial Revolution (2014), won both the Economic History Society's biennial First Monograph Prize and the Selden Society's David Yale Prize.

Review :
'An important new work which re-interprets opposition to the Court of Wards from an institutional economics point of view, arguing for the vital importance of its abolition in securing property rights against the crown.' Craig Muldrew, author of The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England


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  • ISBN-13: 9781009384315
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Wardship in Britain, 1485–1660
  • ISBN-10: 1009384317
  • Publisher Date: 23 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series


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