"Although feudalism had largely died about by the Reformation, the structures were by then firmly established."

Only up until the English Civil Wat when 'the world turned upside down'. For an interesting 'alternative' view of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, have a look at Christopher Hill's 'Liberty Against the Law' which looks at opinion and events as depicted by popular culture including folk songs, as opposed to the writings of the educated ruling elite who set out most of history as they viewed it.