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machinery of the “commune petition” in the fourteenth century’, EHR , 56 (1941), 198–233, 549–70; J. R. Maddicott, ‘The county community and the making of public opinion in fourteenth century England’, TRHS 5th series, 28 (1978), 27–43. 20 Musson and Ormrod, Evolution , pp. 146–57; Ross, Edward IV
. 12 The 1341 Royal Inquest in Lincolnshire , ed. B. W. McLane, Lincoln Record Society, 78 (1988). 13 G. L. Harriss, King, Parliament and Public Finance in Medieval England to 1369 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975), pp. 405–10; W. N. Bryant, ‘The financial dealings of Edward III with the county
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-revisionists in the wake of provocative claims about the importance of the ‘county community’ and of localism. Scribal documents and printed pamphlets have been used to demonstrate the degree to which national issues penetrated into local cultures and society, the degree to which people across the country were engaged with, and able to follow, national affairs and the degree to which local people could influence national affairs, as authors, petitioners and lobbyists. Recent work on political communication, in other words, has detected important shifts in the kinds of
, which paid dividends of up to 10 per cent, although free admission seems to have been as great an attraction. In the nineteenth century, when most courses were unenclosed, upper- and middle-class groups had provided subscriptions to the race meetings. By the interwar period this practice had died out on flat courses, which were almost all enclosed and reliant on entrance money through the turnstiles. The traditional pattern continued, however, in the smaller National Hunt courses, where elite patronage allowed status positioning within the county community. Race
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