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SECTION
22. Isolation of Villages. Crafts and Trades. Markets
23. Foreign Commerce and the Danes
24. Summary of Trade and Industry in the Saxon Period
CHAPTER IV
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THE MANOR AND THE MANORIAL SYSTEM
25. The Interest of the Question as to the Origin of the Manor
26. The Mark Theory and the Manor.
27. Criticisms of the Mark Theory
28. Vinogradoff's Evidence on the Manorial System
29. Evidence from Manorial Courts and Customs
30. The "Customary" Tenants
31. The Evidence of Village Communities
32. A Survey of the Origin of the Manor
33. The Feudal System
42. Free Tenants. Soke-men.
36. The Wealth of various Districts
37. The Manors and Lords of the Manors
39. The Condition of these Inhabitants
40. Services due to the Lord from his Tenants in Villeinage
41. Money Payments and Rents
43. The Distinction between Free and Unfree Tenants
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51. Special Privileges of Towns
52. How the Towns obtained their Charters
53. The Gilds and the Towns. Various kinds of Gilds
54. How the Merchant Gilds helped the Growth of Towns
55. How the Craft Gilds helped Industry
56. Life in the Towns of this time
CHAPTER VII
MANUFACTURES AND TRADE: ELEVENTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
57. Economic Effects of the Feudal System
58. Foreign Trade. The Crusades
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62. Economic Appearance of England in this Period. Population.
The North and South
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63. General Condition of the Period
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PERIOD III
FROM THE THIRTEENTH TO THE END OF THE
FIFTEENTH CENTURY, INCLUDING THE GREAT PLAGUE
66. Methods of Cultivation. The Capitalist Landlord and his Bailiff.
The "Stock and Land" Lease
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77. Foreign Manufacture of Fine Goods
78. Flemish Settlers teach the English Weavers. Norwich.
79. The Worsted Industry
80. Gilds in the Cloth Trade.
81. The Dyeing of Cloth
82. The Great Transition in English Industry
83. The Manufacturing Class and Politics
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91. Growth of Industrial Villages. The Germs of the Modern Fac-
tory System
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CHAPTER XI
THE GREAT PLAGUE AND ITS ECONOMIC EFFECTS
92. Material Progress of the Country.
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93. Social Changes. The Villeins and the Wage-paid Labourers
94. The Famine and the Plague
THE PEASANTS' REVOLT OF 1381, and tHE SUBSEQUENT CONDITION OF THE
FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE EVE OF THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
(1509-1716)
CHAPTER XIV
THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII., AND ECONOMIC CHANGES IN THE
128. Bankruptcy and Rapacity of Edward VI.'s Government
129. The Agrarian Situation
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134. The Expansion of Commerce. The New Spirit.
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138. Trade with Flanders. Antwerp in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Centuries
139. The Decay of Antwerp and Rise of London as the Western
Emporium
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140. The Merchants and Sea-Captains of the Elizabethan Age in the
New World
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141. Remarks on the Signs and Causes of the Expansion of Trade
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153. Assessment of Wages by Justices. The First Poor Law
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158. Résumé of Progress since Thirteenth Century
159. Progress in James I.'s Reign. Influence of Landlords
160. Writers on Agriculture. Improvements. Game
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161. Drainage of the Fens
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162. Rise of Price of Corn and of Rent
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163. Special Features of the Eighteenth Century. Popularity of
164. Improvements of Cattle, and in the Productiveness of Land.
165. Survivals of Primitive Culture. Common Fields
166. Great Increase of Enclosures
167. Benefits of Enclosures as Compared with the Old Common Fields
168. The Decay of the Yeomanry
169. Causes of the Decay of the Yeomanry
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170. The Rise in Rent.
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171. The Fall in Wages
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