Category: History - British

English Economic History: Select Documents

1. Rights and Duties of All Persons [_Rectitudines singularum personarum_], _c._ 1000--2. The form of the Domesday Inquest, 1086--3. The borough of Dover, 1086--4. The borough of Norwich, 1086--5. The borough of Wallingford, 1086--6. The customs of Berkshire, 1086--7. Land of...

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4. PART I: 1000-1485

1. Rights and Duties of All Persons [_Rectitudines singularum personarum_], _c._ 1000--2. The form of the Domesday Inquest, 1086--3. The borough of Dover, 1086--4. The borough o...

9. Part VII), and a report on the papers of the Marquis of Lothian (pp.

(2) Reference to questions of pauperism and prices will be found in contemporary literary authorities set out under section I, in particular in the works of More, Crowley, Lever...

13. c. 3 (1721) declared combinations among the journeymen tailors unlawful

in London, Westminster, and the Bills of Mortality, and fixed the hours of labour, thirteen, and the maximum wages, two shillings a day, from the end of March to the end of June...

11. Letter XIV, pp._ 150, 156, 161], 1771.

As I shall presently leave Norfolk it will not be improper to give a slight review of the husbandry which has rendered the name of this county so famous in the farming world. Po...

7. Part III, pp. 688-9_], 1524.

[Enacted] that the weavers of this city shall have for the weaving of every cloth, to the making whereof goeth and is put 80 and 8 lb. of wool or more to the number of 80 lb. an...

5. PART II: 1485-1660

1. Villeinage in the Reign of Elizabeth, 1561--2. Customs of the Manor of High Furness, 1576--3. Petition in Chancery for Restoration to a Copyhold, c. 1550--4. Petition in Chan...

10. PART III: 1660-1846

1. Defoe's Account of the West Riding Cloth Industry, 1724--2. Defoe's Account of the Woollen Trade, _temp._ George II.--3. Defoe's Account of the Corn Trade, _temp._ George II....

12. Part II, of which an English translation is to appear shortly.

_Contemporary._--1. _Documentary authorities_: Records of a seventeenth century strike are printed in Unwin, _Industrial Organisation_, App. A. Petitions by weavers, feltmakers,...

2. PART II: 1485-1660

1. PART I: 1000-1485

3. PART III: 1660-1846

6. Part III, pp. 674-5_], 1520.

October 10, 1520. Memorandum that the Xth day of October and in the [eleventh] year of the reign of King Henry VIII, then Master John Bond being Mayor of the City of Coventry, t...

8. Part I; Ashley, _Economic History_, Chap. V; Nicholls, _History of

the Poor Law_; Rogers, _Six Centuries of Work and Wages_; Tawney, _The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century_; Gasquet, _Henry VIII and the English Monasteries_; _Oxford His...