6§ 4. Foreign Trade
114§ 6. Special features of the eighteenth century. Popularity of agriculture
7§ 5. General Summary
115§ 7. Improvements of cattle, and in the productiveness of land. Statistics
8§ 1. The Mark
116§ 8. Wrong done to small land-owners by the Statute of Frauds
9§ 2. The Manor
117§ 9. Causes of the decay of the yeomanry
10§ 3. Combined Agriculture
118§ 10. Great increase of enclosures
11§ 4. The Feudal System
119§ 11. Benefits of enclosures as compared with the old common fields
12§ 1. Domesday Book
120§ 12. The rise in rent
13§ 2. Economic condition of the country as shown in Domesday
121§ 13. The fall in wages
14§ 3. The Manors and their owners
122§ 1. England a commercial power
15§ 4. The inhabitants of the manors
123§ 2. The beginnings of the struggle with Spain
16§ 5. The condition of these inhabitants
124§ 3. Cromwell’s commercial wars
17§ 6. Services due to the lord from his tenants in villeinage
125§ 4. The wars of William III. and of Anne
18§ 7. Money payments and rents
126§ 5. Expansion of English trade after these wars
19§ 8. Free Tenants. Soke-men
127§ 6. Further wars with France and Spain
20§ 9. Illustrations of old manors. (1) Estone
128§ 7. The struggle for India
21§ 10. Cuxham Manor in the eleventh and thirteenth centuries
129§ 8. The conquest of Canada
22§ 11. Description of a manor village
130§ 9. Survey of commercial progress during these wars
23§ 12. The kinds of land in a manor
131§ 1. Circumstances favourable to English manufactures
24§ 1. The origin of towns
132§ 2. Wool trade. Home manufactures. Dyeing
25§ 2. Rise of towns in England
133§ 3. Other influences favourable to England. The Huguenot immigration
26§ 3. Towns in Domesday: London
134§ 4. Distribution of the cloth trade
27§ 4. Special privileges of towns
135§ 5. Coal-mines
28§ 5. How the towns obtained their charters
136§ 6. Development of coal trade: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
29§ 6. The gilds and the towns. Various kinds of gilds
137§ 7. The iron trade
30§ 7. How the Merchant Gilds helped the growth of towns
138§ 8. Pottery
31§ 8. How the Craft Gilds helped industry
139§ 9. Other mining industries
32§ 9. Life in the towns of this time
140§ 10. The close of the period of manual industries
33§ 1. Economic effects of the Feudal System
141§ 1. Industry and politics. Land-owners and merchant princes
34§ 2. Foreign Trade. The Crusades
142§ 2. The coming of the capitalists
35§ 3. The trading clauses in the Great Charter
143§ 3. The class of small manufacturers
36§ 4. The Jews in England: their economic position
144§ 4. The condition of the manufacturing population
37§ 5. Manufactures in this period: Flemish weavers
145§ 5. Condition of the agricultural population
38§ 6. Economic appearance of England in this Period. Population
146§ 6. Growth of population
39§ 7. General condition of the Period
147§ 7. England still mainly agricultural
40§ 1. Introductory. Rise of a wage-earning class
148§ 8. The domestic system of manufacture
41§ 2. Agriculture the chief occupation of the people
149§ 1. The suddenness of the Revolution and its importance
42§ 3. Methods of cultivation. The capitalist landlord and his bailiff. The “stock and land” lease
150§ 2. The great inventors
43§ 4. The tenant’s communal land and closes
151§ 3. The revolution in manufactures and the factories
44§ 5. Ploughing
152§ 4. The growth of population and the development of the Northern districts
45§ 6. Stock, Pigs and Poultry
153§ 5. The revolution in the mining industries
46§ 7. Sheep
154§ 6. The nation’s wealth and its wars
47§ 8. Increase of sheep farming
155§ 1. England’s industrial advantages in 1763
48§ 9. Consequent increase of enclosures
156§ 2. The mistake of the Mercantile Theory
49§ 1. England’s monopoly of wool
157§ 3. The loss of the American colonies
50§ 2. Wool and Politics
158§ 4. The outbreak of the great Continental War
51§ 3. Prices and brands of English wool
159§ 5. Its effects upon industry, and the working classes
52§ 4. English manufactures
160§ 6. Politics among the working classes
53§ 5. Foreign manufacture of fine goods
161§ 1. The results of the introduction of the factory system
54§ 6. Flemish settlers teach the English weavers. Norwich
162§ 2. Contemporary evidence of the new order of things
55§ 7. The worsted industry
163§ 3. English slavery. The apprentice system
56§ 8. Gilds in the cloth trade
164§ 4. The beginning of the factory agitation
57§ 9. The dyeing of cloth
165§ 5. The various Factory Acts
58§ 10. The great transition in English industry
166§ 6. How these Acts were passed
59§ 11. The manufacturing class and politics
167§ 1. Disastrous effects of the new industrial system
60§ 1. The chief manufacturing towns
168§ 2. The allowance system of relief
61§ 2. Staple towns and the merchants
169§ 3. Restrictions upon labour
62§ 3. Markets
170§ 4. Growth of Trade Unions
63§ 4. The great fairs
171§ 5. The working classes fifty years ago
64§ 5. The fairs of Winchester and Stourbridge
172§ 6. Wages
65§ 6. English mediæval ports
173§ 1. Services rendered by the great land-owners
66§ 7. The temporary decay of manufacturing towns
174§ 2. The stimulus caused by the Bounties
67§ 8. Growth of industrial villages. The germs of the modern factory system
175§ 3. Agricultural improvements
68§ 1. Material progress of the country
176§ 4. The cause of the depression. The rise in rent
69§ 2. Social changes. The villeins and wage-paid labourers
177§ 5. The labourer and the land. Wages
70§ 3. The Famine and the Plague
178§ 6. The present condition of British agriculture
71§ 4. The effects of the Plague on wages
179§ 1. The growth of our industry
72§ 5. Prices of provisions
180§ 2. State of trade in 1820
73§ 6. Effects of the Plague upon the land-owners
181§ 3. The beginnings of Free Trade
74§ 7. Rise of the tenant farmer or yeoman class
182§ 4. Revolution in the means of transit
75§ 8. The emancipation of the villeins
183§ 5. Modern developments. Our colonies
76§ 1. New social doctrines
184§ 6. England and other nations’ wars
77§ 2. The coming of the Friars. Wiklif
185§ 7. Present difficulties. Commercial depressions
78§ 3. The renewed exactions of the landlords
186§ 8. The present capitalist system. Foreign markets
79§ 4. The Peasants’ Revolt
187§ 9. Over-production and wages
80§ 5. The Condition of the English labourer
188§ 10. The power of labour. Trade Unions and Co-operation
81§ 6. Drawbacks
189§ 1. Industrial Expansion
82§ 7. The close of the Middle Ages
190§ 2. Wars, calamities, and the American crisis
83§ 1. Henry VIII.’s wastefulness
191§ 3. The increase of public expenditure
84§ 2. The dissolution of the monasteries
192§ 4. Free Trade and Protection. The Colonies
85§ 3. Results of the suppression
193§ 5. The position of the workers. Social legislation
86§ 4. The issuing of base coin
194§ 6. Trade Unionism and the Labour Movement
87§ 5. The confiscation of the gild lands
195§ 7. Recent inventions and industrial developments
88§ 6. The agrarian situation
196§ 8. The necessity of studying economic factors in history
89§ 7. Other economic changes
197NOTE ON AUTHORITIES FOR INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
90§ 8. Summary of the changes of the sixteenth century
1981. Population of Roman Britain
91§ 1. The expansion of commerce. The new spirit
1992. Markets on Boundaries
92§ 2. Foreign trade in the fifteenth century
2003. Danish Influence on Commerce
93§ 3. The Venetian fleet
2014. Manorial Courts
94§ 4. The Hanseatic League’s station in London
2025. Decay of Manorial System
95§ 5. Our trade with Flanders. Antwerp in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
2036. The Jews
96§ 6. The decay of Antwerp and rise of London as the Western emporium
2047. Commercial relations with Flanders
97§ 7. The merchants and sea-captains of the Elizabethan age in the New World
2058. Other Sources of Income
98§ 8. Remarks on the signs and causes of the expansion of trade
2069. Assize of Bread and Ale
99§ 1. Prosperity and pauperism
20710. Stourbridge Fair
100§ 2. The growth of manufactures
20811. Survivals of Villeinage
101§ 3. Monopolies of manufacturing towns
20911a. Monopolies
102§ 4. Our exports of manufactures
21012. Elizabeth’s Poor Law
103§ 5. The Flemish immigration in this reign
21113. Banking and the Stop of the Exchequer
104§ 6. Agriculture
21214. National Debt
105§ 7. Social comforts
21315. Export of Bullion
106§ 8. The condition of the labourers
21416. Important Commercial Events
107§ 9. Assessment of wages by justices. The first Poor Law
21517. Deposition of East India Company
108§ 10. Population
21618. Huskisson’s Reforms
