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The 18th century was the high noon of the gentry's influence and power, and this study is the first to investigate the fortunes and character of the ruling class of this particular isolated corner of Britain during their golden age.

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This is a study of the lower orders within Welsh rural communities and pays attention to those people who worked and lived off the land of eighteenth century Wales, often amidst poverty and insecurity.