Table of Contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: List of maps and graphs
  • List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. People, Families and Land: 1. The peopling of a county
  • 2. The problem: the disappearance of the small landowner
  • 3. The reality: the small landholder on the chalk: Chippenham
  • 4. The reality: the small landholder on the clay: Orwell
  • 5. The reality: the small landholder in the fens: Willingham
  • Part II. The Schooling of the Peasantry: 6. A general view of schools and schoolmasters
  • 7. The elementary ability to write: Willingham and Orwell
  • 8. The importance of reading in the village community
  • Part III. Parishioners and their Religion: 9. Dissent before and after the commonwealth
  • 10. A general view of the laity in the diocese of Ely
  • 11. Fragmentation and the growth of sects
  • 12. The possible determinants of dissent
  • 13. The reality of religion for the villager
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Index of contemporary names
  • General index.