ABSTRACT
The landed classes, and the investors and speculators in land, began to get a shrewd notion of the price that they, or their children, would have to pay for resurgent feudalism: a charge upon their happiness no less than upon their wealth. The Tudor sovereigns, like their predecessors, were from time to time acquiring portions of land through escheat or confiscation. At the beginning of the reign the nearest royal manor to the site of the disposed land was usually chosen; but the later years clearly reveal the increasing and widespread use of East Greenwich. During the Edwardian minority its history was a chequered one, though it began to recover towards the end. Then, under Mary, it entered upon a period of reform in administration which was soon reflected in increased profits to the crown.
