"These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras."

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.161, Yale University Press

Linda Colley

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