![]() Evidence was obtained primarily from printed Chancery Rolls, private letters between contemporary families, Inquisitions Post Mortem and various other primary sources. Focus is placed on the social and political framework of later-fifteenth-century Nottinghamshire society as well as on the use of administration and family networking as tools of long-term survival by a coalition of dominant greater gentry families. The period of study runs from 1461 until c.1485, intended to be a form of chronological continuation of Simon Payling’s study of Lancastrian Nottinghamshire. This study explores the socio-political structure of the midlands county of Nottinghamshire during the reign of the Yorkist kings and into the reign of Henry VII, explaining how and why the leading county families prospered for such a long period and what relationship the county had with the Yorkist rulers.
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