Timperley people, their politics, their families, crime and violence in Timperley, treatment of poor people in Timperley, agriculture in the Mini-Ice Age, convertible husbandry, the importance of the commons, the famine of the 1620s in the North-West, housing, Riddings Hall, food, clothes, luxuries, fuel and transport as shown in wills and probate inventories from 1600 to 1640 and Dunham Massey Barony Court Leets 1613-1643.