The Growth of English Industry and Commerce, Volume 1CUP Archive, 1968 - 1039 pages |
Contents
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY | 1 |
DISINTEGRATION AND BEGINNINGS OF MODERN SOCIETY | 4 |
The grouping of facts | 7 |
Distinct political periodsdescription and explanation | 13 |
THE ENGLISH IN FRISIA | 28 |
Selfsufficing villages | 33 |
PAGE | 53 |
Their enterprise | 83 |
Sources and pressure of taxation | 273 |
Comforts and conveniences of life | 275 |
BEGINNINGS OF COMMERCIAL POLICY 97 Plenty industries thrift | 276 |
The Staple | 287 |
The wine trade | 293 |
Fair dealing herring cloth | 295 |
The currency and exchanges | 299 |
Regulation of wages the Black Death | 303 |
41 | 89 |
Personal and proprietary relationships | 96 |
How far was there a break of continuity from Roman times? | 102 |
B Exchange | 108 |
Units of value | 116 |
Commercial regulation | 126 |
FEUDALISM CHAPTER I THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND ITS EFFECTS PAGE 55 The Feudal System in England | 129 |
Norman influence | 135 |
Moral sentiments | 139 |
ROYAL REVENUES 58 Sources of revenue | 142 |
Currency moneyers and exchange | 148 |
The Exchequer | 150 |
ROYAL INQUISITIONS 61 The object of the Domesday Survey | 155 |
The Articles of Enquiry | 156 |
Milton and Soham | 162 |
The towns | 165 |
The Hundred Rolls | 166 |
FOREIGN INTERCOURSE 66 Intermunicipal commerce in Europe | 173 |
Foreign artisans | 176 |
Alien merchantsthe Hansards | 181 |
Gascon and Italian merchants | 184 |
The Jews | 187 |
Foreign ecclesiastics | 193 |
ROYAL CHARTERS 72 Progress of the towns | 197 |
Manorial jurisdiction and claims for service | 199 |
Royal rights fiscal obligations | 202 |
Gilds merchant | 206 |
Affiliation of burghs | 209 |
Municipal selfgovernment | 211 |
ROYAL MUNICIPAL AND MANORIAL ECONOMY 78 The Dialogus de Scaccario | 215 |
Extents Compotus Rolls Court Rolls | 217 |
Manorial officers | 222 |
Walter of Henley Husbandry Grosstestes Rules | 223 |
Communal prosperity and fair dealing | 226 |
Christian doctrine of a just price | 233 |
The condemnation of usury | 236 |
REPRESENTATION AND LEGISLATION CHAPTER I POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS UNDER THE EDWARDS PAGE 85 Edward I a... | 241 |
Edward III and foreign policy | 245 |
Commercial morality and empirical legislation | 249 |
CONSOLIDATION 88 Usurpations and malversation | 250 |
Ecclesiastical immunities | 252 |
Purveyance and the customs | 255 |
Legislative facilities for commerce | 259 |
The expulsion of the Jews | 265 |
Alien merchants and bankers | 268 |
Signs of prosperity | 271 |
CRAFT GILDS 103 Formation of gilds and relation to authorities | 309 |
Their objects | 313 |
Apprentices journeymen and masters | 318 |
ECONOMIC DOCTRINE 106 The commonwealth | 319 |
Nicholas Oresme | 320 |
The currency | 322 |
City opinion on money lending | 330 |
Decay of local institutions | 334 |
Royal and ecclesiastical authority | 335 |
The beginnings of the mercantile system | 337 |
Classes of modern society | 338 |
THE MERCANTILE CLASS AND THE PEASANTS 115 The wealth of the merchants | 340 |
Magnificence and comfort | 345 |
Mercantile policy | 350 |
The Peasants Revolt | 354 |
Sheep farming | 361 |
COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIPS 120 Decay of shipping piracy | 366 |
Companies of Adventurers | 370 |
The Hanse League | 372 |
Florence Genoa Venice | 378 |
Protection of native artisans | 384 |
Money and bullion | 386 |
INDUSTRY AND INTERNAL TRADE 126 The cloth manufacture | 389 |
Craft gilds and yeoman gilds | 394 |
The encouragement of tillage | 398 |
Internal communications and towns | 400 |
The determination of prices | 404 |
Relations of persons and exchange of things | 409 |
Personal responsibility | 411 |
National consciousness | 416 |
The age of discoveries | 418 |
ACCELERATED RATE OF CHANGE | 428 |
Navigation Acts | 435 |
Pilots and harbours | 441 |
THE GILDS | 450 |
Gilds as administrative organs | 456 |
Migration of industry | 463 |
Social and political results of increased sheep farming | 471 |
The Unemployed | 478 |
General Subsidies | 484 |
CHANGES IN OPINION | 490 |
Schemes of national organisation | 498 |
B MANORIAL RECORDS | 504 |
MUNICIPAL LIFE | 540 |
E NICHOLAS ORESMES TRACTATUS DE ORIGINE MONETARUM | 556 |
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