Calculations for my February, 1972 Economic History Review article on The Counting of Manors Reconsidered
I have just uploaded to the Internet Archive site copies of the detailed calculations I made in 1967-68 based on Lawrence Stone's estimates of the landed income and manorial holdings of the English peerage between 1558/9 and 1641. My estimates of gross rental were based on the mean of each of the income groups into which he had divided peers, not on the median of each of these groups as he claimed in his rejoinder. His warnings about the problems involved in including casualties in calculations for 1641 were also taken into account: they were explicitly excluded in my table for 1641 although the relevant figures were offered in a footnote. Stone claimed that I had improperly included casualties in 1641 and mysteriously excluded them. Since he had been given a copy of my calculations in 1968, questions arise about his reply. He was, however, able to write to me from his home on the Woodstock Road in Oxford in July, 1971 to tell me (a) that publication would do me no good and (b) that he would see to it that I never got an academic job. Anyone wishing to see my calculations may contact me here via the comments.
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