The Growth of English Industry and Commerce ..., Volume 2

Couverture
University Press, 1907
 

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controlled the administrative system The legislative method of fostering
82
THE LANDED INTEREST
85
B Enclosure and Depopulation in 1607 pp 102
102
of the time chiefly took the form of reclaiming land from inundation
129
monetary science and led to a clearer apprehension of the cause of
161
National and Civic Economic Policy contrasted The changes
162
National Ambition for Maritime Power The rising patriotic
164
population could be absorbed criminals and prisoners of war were trans
165
The Assessment of Wages With the view of providing that
168
THE STUARTS 160370
170
620
172
The Regulation of the Corn Trade In regulating the corn trade
173
the African trade Several Companies were organised in succession under
179
their rule As the popular party were successful their disinterestedness
180
Regulated and Jointstock Companies The State frequently
188
Company were made as separate ventures though each was on a common
194
ii Instructions to the Council of Trade under Charles I
200
Empirical Study of Phenomena Seventeenth century pam
206
puch schemes had become possible because the landed interest was closely
210
Parliamentary Control over Public Borrowing The Whigs
211
successful jointstock Company The enterprise was opened up by French
216
organising the Bank of England deprived the Crown of the power
218
The Revolt of the Colonies The severance of the American
238
The Industrial Revolution in England The Industrial Revo
242
The First Factory Act The condition of parish apprentices
248

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Page 391 - Labour is the Father and active principle of Wealth, as Lands are the Mother...
Page 39 - ... yield unto the hired person, both in the time of scarcity and in the time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages.
Page 345 - We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Page 599 - Britain; and that the King's majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and Pickering, Statutes at Large, vol. 27, pp. 19-20. validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Page 476 - Imployment and Increase of English Shipping and Seamen, Vent of English Woollen and other Manufactures and Commodities...
Page 162 - Is sin, and detestable;" and the statute of 21 James the First, reducing the rate to eight per cent, provided that nothing in the law should be "construed to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience...
Page 361 - Virginia shall immediately depend upon ourself and not be committed to any company or corporation to whom it may be proper. To trust matters of trade and commerce, but cannot be fit or safe to communicate the ordering of state affairs, be they of never so mean consequence.
Page 533 - Master Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity, and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his thirty thousand pounds ; who brought with him many rare engines, not known then in these parts — as the art to...
Page 370 - A concise view of the origin, constitution, and proceedings of the honourable society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster within the realm of Ireland; commonly called The Irish Society.
Page 533 - Mines in with his thirty thousand pounds; who brought with him many rare Engines, not known then in these parts, as the Art to Boore with, Iron Rodds, to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the Coale, rare Engines to draw Water out of the Pits ; Waggons with one Horse to carry down Coales from the Pits, to the Stathes, to the River etc. Within few years, he consumed all his money and Rode home upon his Light Horse.

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