Category: History - British
fully on some future occasion. If in the present work I have given, as I am conscious that I have, undue space to the detailed illustration of particular changes, I must plead that one cannot have the dessert without the dinner, and that a firm foundation of fact, even though...
fully on some future occasion. If in the present work I have given, as I am conscious that I have, undue space to the detailed illustration of particular changes, I must plead t...
2. PART I.--THE SMALL LANDHOLDER3. PART II.--THE TRANSITION TO CAPITALIST AGRICULTURE4. PART III.--THE OUTCOME OF THE AGRARIAN REVOLUTIONAny one who turns over the Statutes and State Papers of the sixteenth century will be aware that statesmen were much exercised with an agrarian problem, which they thought to be...
5. Chapter I. of Part II. will examine the reason which led to more rapidchanges in agricultural methods in the sixteenth century, and the growth of the large leasehold farms upon which these changes can be most easily traced. Chapters II. and III. w...
6. PART I"What comyn folke in all this world may compare with the comyns of England in riches, freedom, liberty, welfare, and all prosperity? What comyn folke is so mighty, so strong in...
7. CHAPTER IIf an Englishman of ordinary intelligence had been asked in the reign of Henry VIII. to explain the foundations of national prosperity, he would probably have answered that the...
8. Part II. pp. 112?-113, and pp. 195?-196.)Important, however, as the freeholders were from a social and political standpoint, they were in most parts of England far inferior in point of numbers to those described as "cu...
9. CHAPTER IIWhen one turns from what legal historians have said on the origin and development of copyhold tenure to consider the economic position of this class of tenants, one finds onesel...
10. CHAPTER IIIIt was the argument of the previous chapter that the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw the emergence from the mass of manorial tenants of a class of wealthy peasants who bo...
11. xiii. The Scots, he thinks, are only one degree lessfaint-hearted than the French. "Thai ben often tymes hanged for larceny, and stelynge off good in the absence off the owner theroff. But ther hartes serve them not to take a man...
12. CHAPTER IVSo far attention has been concentrated upon those phenomena which suggest that, before the great agrarian changes of the sixteenth century begin, there has been a period--one ma...
13. PART II"The earth is thine, O Lord, and all that is contained therein; notwithstanding thou hast given the possession thereof to the children of men, to pass over the time of their sho...
14. CHAPTER IA common view of social development regards it as the outcome of irresistible causes working towards results which can be neither hastened nor averted, and treats the fact that...
15. Book III., p. 370, and his quotations from Maitland: "Thevillains of Bright Waltham ... constituted a community which held land, which was capable of receiving a grant of land, which could contract with the lord, which could make exch...
16. CHAPTER IIThe history of the agrarian problem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--indeed its history ever since--is largely the story of the small cultivator's struggle to protect...
17. CHAPTER IIIWe have said above that we cannot measure the extent of the depopulation caused by enclosure, even for those years with regard to which figures are supplied us by Royal Commissi...
18. PART III"Lords spiritual and temporal, have it in your mind This world as it waveth, and to your tenants be kind." --_The Proclamation of the Commons_, Gairdner, _Letters and Papers of...
19. CHAPTER IThe changes which have been described in the organisation of agriculture created problems which were less absorbing than those arising out of the religious reformation and the r...
20. Part I., 70, 1537. Examination of R. Leedes: "The rebels ...were half inclined to go home. But Ralph Green ... encouraged them to go forward, saying, 'God's blood, sirs, what will ye now do? Shall we go home and keep sheep? Nay, by God's...
21. ccclxii. 60, 1637; order of Council that the Attorney-General[690] J. Moore, _A Target for Tillage_: "My purpose is not here to plead for ... any other idle drones and wretched atheists.... All these I acknowledge to be the greatest waste...
22. CHAPTER IIThose who have had the patience to follow the detailed changes in rural organisation which have been described above will naturally ask, "What is the upshot of it all? What are...