1. A. Fletcher, A county community in peace and war: Sussex, 1600–1660 (London, 1975).
2. L. Stone, The crisis of the aristocracy, 1558–1641 (Oxford, 1965).
3. P. Jenkins, The making of a ruling class: the Glamorgan gentry, 1640–1790 (Cambridge, 1983).
4. D. Cannadine, The decline and fall of the British aristocracy (London, 1990).
5. The most notable example is K. Wrightson and D. Levine, Poverty and piety in an English village: Terling, 1525–1700 (London, 1979).