"...this volume makes valuable contributions to the on-going study of English and Welsh agrarian history." Albion
"...an essential reference volume. Tracing the decline of manorial demesnes, the disappearance of serfdom, the rise of rural industry, and the conversion of arable to pasture, this volume reliably takes its readers across the distance that separates medieval serfs from Tudor husbandmen and goodwives." Judith M. Bennett, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"...a substantive contribution to known raw data and a survey of sources that must be considered definitive in quality." J. A. Raftis, Speculum