Talk:George Duckett
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[edit] Any George I political experts who drop by....
I have a question. 1717, Duckett does his book on the value of ecclesiastical lands at the time of the dissolution. I follow others by saying that's apolitical, but I'm not at all sure that it is. George I is on the throne, and he's low church. Monasteries and religious houses still existed in the Anglican church. More to the point, th church held a lot of land. Would a thing like this have been bait to the king -- a promise of a man who is not afraid to tell the crown how much they could get by taking the lands of the church? Could it have been a threat to the bishops? It's quite a time to do a book like that, and, given how everything else Duckett did was Whig, I wonder if it is innocent. Wondering isn't enough, of course, for including in the article. Geogre (talk) 13:45, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
