Note 707 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)

The opposite view is expressed by Gasquet, Henry the Eighth and the English Monasteries, chap. xxii. For a criticism of it see Savine, Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, vol. i. pp. 263–267, and pp. 245–260 for facts as to lay administrators. Hibbert, op. cit., pp. 210–211, who writes of Staffordshire, supports Savine rather than Gasquet. The evidence of Aske cannot be quoted as though what was true of the northern houses were true of all. As a matter of fact, lay estates preserved the old conditions in the north long after the dissolution (see pp. 189–191). The hatred of the new landlords is proof that they were specially detestable, rather than that the monasteries had been above all ordinary economic considerations.