The Ruling Elite of Cambridgeshire, England, C. 1520-1603This study suggests that geography, kinship and other communal connections were important factors for the formation of an active political elite, often superseding religion and external or central intervention in significance. Core groups of resident gentry within the broader elite dominated local office holding and more importantly, active participation in shire government throughout the period examined. The dual focus on the myriad connections that impacted the formation of the Cambridgeshire ruling elite together with the detailed analysis of local governmental activity represent two themes that are not widely published for Tudor counties. The Cambridgeshire experience and developments in other countries are compared extensively, while considering the wider national context that includes changes in central government, the progress of the religious reformation, efforts at governmental centralization, and responses to foreign threats. |
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Introduction | 1 |
An Overview | 49 |
Chapter Three Henrician Cambridgeshire c 152046 | 97 |
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administrative units appointments Bishop Goodrich Brakyn Burghley Cambridgeshire bench Cambridgeshire commission Cambridgeshire government Cambridgeshire JPs Cambridgeshire ruling elite centre Christopher Burgoyne connexions council county bench county's Cromwell crown deputy lieutenants Diocese of Ely disputes Edward North Elizabeth Elizabethan England enrolled commission Francis Hinde gentlemen gentry George Freville governmental Henrician Henry VIII History of Parliament Huntingdonshire included Isle of Ely John Hinde John Huddleston John Hutton jurisdictions justices Lansd levies List Number lord lieutenant Lord North MacCulloch Megges militia Milsent musters non-resident Norfolk peace personnel Philip Paris Pigott political PROB quarter sessions quarter-session attendance reign religious sympathies represented resident elite resident JPs Richard Robert Peyton Roger Lord Roger Lord North Roger North Rudston served shire JPs shire officials Sir Giles Alington Suffolk Thomas Chicheley Thomas Cromwell Thomas Rudston town of Cambridge Tudor University of Cambridge Visitation of Cambridge William Wolsey