English Economic History: Select Documents

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Alfred Edward Bland, Philip Anthony Brown, Richard Henry Tawney
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Henry VI
85
Villeinage established 1225
92
Grant of a bondman 1358
98
The Peasants Revolt 1381
105
SECTION V
111
Dispute with a lord touching a gild merchant 12234
123
Dispute between a gild merchant and an abbot 1304
131
Dispute between Masters and Journeymen 1396
141
Incorporation of the Haberdashers of London 1448
147
The Statute of Winchester 1285
154
13
167
a Bill in Parliament 23 Henry
176
23
184
Grant of letters of marque and reprisals 1447
190
Alien weavers in London 1362
195
The hosting of aliens 1442
197
An offence against Stat 18 Henry VI for the hosting of aliens 1440
198
Imprisonment of an alien craftsman c 1440
199
Petition against usury 1376
200
Action upon usury c 1480
201
SECTION VII
203
Form of the taxation of a fifteenth and tenth 1336
204
Disposition of a subsidy of tonnage and poundage1382
206
The custom on wool 1275
207
The custom on wine 1302
208
The custom on general imports 1303
211
Administration of the search for money exported 1303
216
Provisions for the currency 1335
217
Opinions on the state of English money 13812
220
14851660
225
SECTION I
227
INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
230
Villeinage in the Reign of Elizabeth 1561
231
Customs of the Manor of High Furness 1576
232
Petition in Chancery for Restoration to a Copyhold c
234
Petition in Chancery for Protection against Breach of Manorial Customs 1568
241
Lease of the manor of Ablode to a Farmer 1516
245
Lease of the Manor of South Newton to a Farmer 1568
246
The Agrarian Programme of the Pilgrimage of Grace 1536 247 8 The Demands of the Rebels led by Ket 1549
247
Petition to Court of Requests from Tenants Ruined by Transference of a Monastic Estate to lay hands 1553
251
Petition to Court of Requests to stay Proceedings against Tenants Pending the Hearing of their Case by the Council of the North 1576
254
Petition from Freeholders of Wootton Bassett for Restoration of Rights of Common temp Charles I
255
Petition to Crown of Copyholders of North Wheatley 1629
258
SECTION III
279
9
294
Extracts from the London Clothworkers Court Book
300
Young Men and Maids ordered to enter Service 1655
313
Draft Piecelist Submitted for Ratification to the Wilt
341
Assessment made by the Justices of Wiltshire dealing
351
Revocation of Commissions Patents and Monopolies
472
Report on the Condition of Children in Lancashire Cotton
495
Depression of Wages and its Causes in the Cotton Indus
501
89
502
Evidence by Factory Workers of the Condition
510
Womens and Childrens Labour in Mines 1842
516
SECTION II
523
Farming in Norfolk 1771
530
Arthur Youngs Criticism of Enclosure 1801
536
GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF WAGES CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
543
90
568
Factory Act 1844
612
The Scottish Weavers Strike 1812
631
The Repeal of the Combination Acts 1824
633
A Prosecution of Strikers under the Common Law of Conspiracy 1810
635
An Act Revising the Law affecting Combinations 1825
636
The Conviction of the Dorchester Labourers 1834
638
An Address of the Working Mens Association to Queen Victoria 1837
641
A Chartist Manifesto on the Sacred Month 1839
642
The Rochdale Pioneers 1844
643
SECTION V
645
Settlement Law 1662
647
Defoes Pamphlet Giving Alms no Charity 1704
649
The Workhouse Test Act 1722
650
Gilberts Act 1782
652
Speenhamland Act of Parliament 1795
655
The Workhouse System 1797
657
Two Varieties of the Roundsman System of Relief 1797
660
A Report of the Poor Law Commission 1834
661
The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
663
Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order 1844
664
SECTION VI
667
Act abolishing Tenure by Knight Service etc 1660
670
Navigation Act 1660
672
Free Coinage at the Mint Proclaimed 1666
674
The East India Company and the Interlopers 1684
675
Foundation of the Bank of England 1694
676
The Need for the Recoinage of 1696
677
Speech by Sir Robert Walpole on the Salt Duties 1732
678
Pitts Sinking Fund Act 1786
679
The Suspension of Cash Payments 1797
681
Pitts Speech on the Income Tax 1798
683
Foreign Trade in the early Nineteenth Century 1812
689
Debate on the Corn Laws 1815
692
The Corn Law of 1815
697
Free Trade Petition 1820
698
The Foundation of the AntiCornLaw League 1839
701
The Bank Charter Act 1844
702
Debate on the Corn Laws 1846
705

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Página 370 - ... for setting to work all such persons married or unmarried having no means to maintain them, [or] use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Página 631 - The objects and plans of this Society are to form arrangements for the pecuniary benefit, and the improvement of the social and domestic condition of its members, by raising a sufficient amount of capital in shares of one pound each, to bring into operation the following plans and arrangements.
Página 315 - ... yield unto the hired person, both in the time of scarcity and in the time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages.
Página 257 - ... sheep, putting such lands as they can get to pasture, and not to tillage ; Whereby they have not only pulled down churches and towns, and enhanced the old rates of the rents of the possessions of this realm, or else brought it to such excessive fines that no poor man is able to meddle with it...
Página 625 - ... the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, or the management thereof; or if any person shall by violence to the person or property of another, or by threats or intimidation, or by molesting or in any way obstructing another...
Página 643 - Correction, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding Three Calendar Months...
Página 151 - Henry, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitain, and Earl of Anjou ; to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, justices, sheriffs, reeves, ministers, and all his bailiffs and faithful...
Página 636 - Peace, within forty days after any such person or persons coming so to settle, as aforesaid in any tenement under the yearly value of ten pounds for any two justices of the peace whereof one to be of the Quorum of the division where any person or persons that are likely to be chargeable to the parish...
Página 257 - By reason whereof a marvellous multitude and number of the people of this realm be not able to provide meat, drink and clothes necessary for themselves, their wives and children, but be so discouraged with misery and poverty, that they fall daily to theft, robbery, and other inconveniences, or pitifully die for hunger and cold...
Página 631 - The establishment of a store for the sale of provisions, clothing, etc.; the building, purchasing or erecting a number of houses, in which those members desiring to assist each other in Improving their domestic and social condition, may reside.

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