Reviews

Profiling the Yorkshire county elector of the early eighteenth century: new material and methods

“…O'Gorman has noted that the occupational categories he utilizes were not self-conscious social or status groups, but that craftsmen, for example, were grouped together because`[they] had many social values in common'. 68 It is questionable just how far this belief can be justi®ed for shire electorates, where there were numerous dierent pressures acting upon dierent men. 69 The agricultural demands upon a yeoman like Hugh Marshall in Guiseley and Rawden, whom the deeds registries imply owned huge tracts of land in a prosperous area, may well have diered from those aecting the life of the smallholder, John Cole, in Fimber.…”