English Economic History: Select Documents

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

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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 Historical and Literary Studies_, I, _Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds and their Representation in Contemporary Literature_, by Frank Aydelotte; _Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History_, Vol. III, _One Hundred Years of Poor Law Administration in a Warwickshire Village_, by A.W. Ashby. The student may also consult the following:--

(1) _Documentary authorities_:--Municipal Records (see bibliographies and references under section II) and Quarter Sessions Records (see bibliographies and references under section III); the Statutes of the Realm, Acts of the Privy Council, Calendars of State Papers Domestic, especially under Elizabeth; Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, especially Vol. I (containing Quarter Sessions Proceedings of Wiltshire and Worcestershire), the volumes containing a report on the papers of the Marquis of Salisbury (in particular