Review of Recent Periodical Literature
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Following in the footsteps of the Stockport Research Group, who made extensive use of probate inventories in their Stockport in the mid-seventeenth century, 1660– 1669 (S. McKenn and C. Nunn eds, Stockport, 1992), Paul Anderton provides a detailed analysis of 59 Nantwich inventories for the same decade along similar lines, with special reference to agriculture. Comparisons are made between Nantwich, Stockport and Lichfield by category of wealth and by category of possession, but unfortunately no wider comparisons are offered. A particular feature of the Nantwich inventories was the degree to which some town dwellers depended upon agriculture in one way or another, with 21 of the 59 keeping cattle, and numerous additional references to dairy or milkhouses, cheese chambers and stocks of cheese. As for Cornish towns, where a similar situation prevailed, in terms of value the investment in livestock was relatively small, accounting for only 7.6 per cent of total assets (see C. North, ‘Merchants and retailers in seventeenth-century Cornwall’, in T. Arkell, N. Evans and N. Goose eds, When death do us part: understanding and interpreting the probate records of early modern England, (Oxford, 2000), 296–7). A further comparison with Nantwich inventories of the 1630s and 1670s reveals a steep decline in cattle ownership after 1671, and a similar fall in the quantities of cheese in store. The Nantwich evidence, therefore, appears to contradict David Hey’s conclusion for the wider region about the steady advance of a specialised cheese industry throughout the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.
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