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	This page provides a list of priority research questions for discussion and potentially for new primary and secondary research work.		This page provides a list of priority research questions for discussion and potentially for new primary and secondary research work.

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 This page provides a list of priority research questions for discussion and potentially for new primary and secondary research work.
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 '''A push is required to understand the land holdings, lease structures, lease negotiations, and litigation over the Dallison land holdings in and around Halling, Kent (1550-1669)'''
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 == Land and lease questions ==
 (1) What land holdings were leased by the Dallison family and how did these change over time?
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 The overarching legal and financial questions are:
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-== Geographical questions ==
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 The focus for the end of the w/c 23/08/11 is a field trip to the Kent North Weald and to the Medway valley.  The objective of this trip, and preparatory secondary research work, is to develop an understanding of the current (and former) physical (and social) geography of this area.  This is the geographical area in which Elizabeth Dallison, her son Maximilian, her son's father-in-law (Thomas Stanley), his business partner (Barnabas Walsall), Elizabeth's sister Jane and her brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Piers, lived at various times in the 1630-1669 time period.

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 (1) What land holdings were leased by the Dallison family and how did these change over time?
-- Location; field names; acreage; rental values
+- Location; field names; acreage; rental values?
 (2) Did the Dallison family farm any land directly, or were they simply a land lord with sub-tenants?
-(3) How did the Dallison management of their estate compare with the Oxendens and with other Kent families in the 1620-1670 period?
+(3) What mix of crops and livestock were farmed in lower Medway parishes (Snodland, Halling, Wouldham, and Cuxton) in the late C16th and early C17th?  What were the economics of these riverine parishes?
-(4) What was the law relating to land leases, reversions, buying out reversions?
+(4) How did the Dallison management of their estate compare with the Oxendens and with other Kent families in the 1620-1670 period?
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 This page provides a list of priority research questions for discussion and potentially for new primary and secondary research work.
-The list reflects research priorities as of the week commencing August 22nd 2011, and is subject to revision as priorities change and questions are resolved or fall away.
+'''The list has been revised to reflect research priorities as of w/c September 19th, 2011 and is subject to revision as priorities change and questions are resolved or fall away.'''
-The focus of the project is currently on finishing a draft book chapter by end September and it is important to keep research focussed on supporting this specific chapter, which centres on the early married life of Elizabeth Dallison, from her marriage in 1631 through to her husband's very early death in 1642.
+The focus of the project is currently on finishing a draft book chapter by end September.  '''A first draft of Chapter Five has now been completed ('Elizabeth and the law').'''
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 == Overarching legal and financial questions ==

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 The focus for the end of the w/c 23/08/11 is a field trip to the Kent North Weald and to the Medway valley.  The objective of this trip, and preparatory secondary research work, is to develop an understanding of the current (and former) physical (and social) geography of this area.  This is the geographical area in which Elizabeth Dallison, her son Maximilian, her son's father-in-law (Thomas Stanley), his business partner (Barnabas Walsall), Elizabeth's sister Jane and her brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Piers, lived at various times in the 1630-1669 time period.
-*  How homogenous and area is encompassed by Seal, Plaxtol, West Peckham, and Mereworth?  How does Wrotham link to these places?  How do these places link to the North Downs, to the Weald, and to the Medway (and Darenth) river valleys?  How do they link to the larger Kent towns now, and in the early C17th? Ditto for London?  Were there any cross-Thames links into Essex?
+*  How homogenous an area is encompassed by Seal, Plaxtol, West Peckham, and Mereworth?  How does Wrotham link to these places?  How do these places link to the North Downs, to the Weald, and to the Medway (and Darenth) river valleys?  How do they link to the larger Kent towns now, and in the early C17th? Ditto for London?  Were there any cross-Thames links into Essex?
 *  How does Halling link to the above places named and to Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham, now and in the early C17th?

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 - Presumably this document from the Court of Wards and Liveries, which is an Inquisitions Post Mortem, relates to the death of Elizabeth Dallison's husband, William. The 20th year of the reign of Charles I was the year 1644
-*  '''[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=6705449&CATLN=6&Highlight=%2CDALLYSON%2CDALLYSON&accessmethod=0 - C 6/2/39] Short title: Dallyson v Maplesden. Plaintiffs: Maximilian Dallyson and another. Defendants: Gervase Maplesden. Subject: property in Chatham, and Gillingham, Kent. Document type: answer only. 1641'''
+*  '''C 6/2/39 Short title: Dallyson v Maplesden. Plaintiffs: Maximilian Dallyson and another. Defendants: Gervase Maplesden. Subject: property in Chatham, and Gillingham, Kent. Document type: answer only. 1641'''
-- Presumably this the plaintiff is Elizabeth Dallison's son, Maximilian, and possibly Elizabeth herself. However, Maximilian would only have been aged nine years old in 1641, and Elizabeth was his legal guardian until his marriage in 1649, and received the rents and profits of his estate during that period. The Chatham and Gillingham property mentioned in the short title is presumably the property whose lease Maximilian allegedly subsequently made over in 1654 to Sir George Oxenden.  There was a Gervaise Maplesden, born in Maidstone in 1602, who appears in Boyd's 'Citizens of London.'  A note to the [http://books.google.com/books?id=x8XJdM6OWlIC&pg=PA361&lpg=PA361&dq=%22gervase+maplesden%22&source=bl&ots=Rc-sWAVF2B&sig=4qUAESgBIKIZboEWZA4DaDTT5TA&hl=en&ei=zeBQToLpE8bIhAfO9fjrBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22gervase%20maplesden%22&f=false - Latham & Mathews' edition of the Pepys' diary, vol. 4 (London, repr. 2000), p. 361] against Pepys' daily entry for November 2nd 1663 states that a Gervaise Maplesden was a "landowner and timber merchant of Shorne, Kent.  Gervaise Maplesden and others with his family name appear in the Medway CityArk e-catalogue, with Gervaise described as "of Shorne, gent."  In 1659 a 'Gervaise Maplesden' is appointed a militia commissioner by the House of Commons and is described as Mayor of Maidstone.  [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=24838 - (See House of Commons Journal, vol. 7: August 12 1659)]
+- Presumably this the plaintiff is Elizabeth Dallison's son, Maximilian, and possibly Elizabeth herself. However, Maximilian would only have been aged nine years old in 1641, and Elizabeth was his legal guardian until his marriage in 1649, and received the rents and profits of his estate during that period. The Chatham and Gillingham property mentioned in the short title is presumably the property whose lease Maximilian allegedly subsequently made over in 1654 to Sir George Oxenden.  There was a Gervaise Maplesden, born in Maidstone in 1602, who appears in Boyd's 'Citizens of London.'  He may also the same man whose will was proved in 1648 (See [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=926518&queryType=1&resultcount=18 - PROB 11/203 11 January 1648 Will of Gervase Maplesden of Maidstone, Kent)].  A note to the [http://books.google.com/books?id=x8XJdM6OWlIC&pg=PA361&lpg=PA361&dq=%22gervase+maplesden%22&source=bl&ots=Rc-sWAVF2B&sig=4qUAESgBIKIZboEWZA4DaDTT5TA&hl=en&ei=zeBQToLpE8bIhAfO9fjrBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22gervase%20maplesden%22&f=false - Latham & Mathews' edition of the Pepys' diary, vol. 4 (London, repr. 2000), p. 361] against Pepys' daily entry for November 2nd 1663 states that a Gervaise Maplesden was a "landowner and timber merchant of Shorne, Kent.  Gervaise Maplesden and others with his family name appear in the Medway CityArk e-catalogue, with Gervaise described as "of Shorne, gent."  In 1659 a 'Gervaise Maplesden' is appointed a militia commissioner by the House of Commons and is described as Mayor of Maidstone.  [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=24838 - (See House of Commons Journal, vol. 7: August 12 1659)].  There is also a will for a Thomas Maplesden, gent., of Shorne, proved in 1689 (See [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=810643&queryType=1&resultcount=18 - PROB 11/397 Ent 139 - 189 18 November 1689 Will of Thomas Maplesden, Gentleman of Shorne, Kent))]
 *  '''C 142/483/82 Dallyson, Maximilian, knight: Kent 8 Charles I.''' (Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series II, and other Inquisitions, Henry VII to Charles I)

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 The focus of the project is currently on finishing a draft book chapter by end September and it is important to keep research focussed on supporting this specific chapter, which centres on the early married life of Elizabeth Dallison, from her marriage in 1631 through to her husband's very early death in 1642.
-To complete the draft chapter knowledge needs to be strengthened in terms of geographical and social context, and in terms of legal and financial challenges faced by the Dallison family in the 1631-1642 period.
+To complete the draft chapter knowledge needs to be strengthened in terms of geographical, legal and social context, and in terms of legal and financial challenges faced by the Dallison family in the 1631-1642 period.
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 (1) How bad a financial hand were William & Elizabeth dealt at their marriage (which had been immediately preceeded by the death of William's father, Sir Maximilian Dallison, and which was followed within days by the death of William's mother).  Sir Maximilian Dallison appears to have had significant problems with his estate.  What were they?
 ** See C 142/483/82 Dallyson, Maximilian, knight: Kent 8 Charles I
 (2) What were William Dallison's financial troubles between 1631 and 1642?  What can we learn from litigation following his death and from the post mortem inquisition?