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

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University Press, 1907
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factor in economic prosperity and desired to relieve its burdens they were
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e industries and granted patents
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rendered useless Authoritative search was not maintained and there
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and punish offences in connection with buying and selling The local
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had been roused and the scheme was carefully planned with the view
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stimulated the coal trade which had been growing through the demand
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necessary to change the rating at which they were to be accepted
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ECONOMIO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN SOCIETY
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estimate the effect of this influx on prices Corn appears to afford the best
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population could be absorbed criminals and prisoners of war were trans
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The statute of Artificers In Elizabeths reign the rules
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tribute the burden of taxation and were not concerned to promote
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THE STUARTS 1609 m
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of the revenue No general rules
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pple that power
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Methods of Administration The starting of these distant
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LAISSEZ FAIRE
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controlled the administrative system The legislative method of fostering
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men and organised by Prince Rupert The English traders were exposed
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rampant The malpractice of the officials and the impoverished condition
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physical grounds and sometimes with reference to convenience for trade
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lution which began in England entails a complete alteration of social
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and to import naval stores but was not very successful The Dutch
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The Revolt of the Colonies The severance of the American
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Factories and Cottage Industries The concentration of labour
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the strongholds of interlopers The Merchant Adventurers were opposed
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Cotton Spinning The cotton industry was the field where
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machines for carding and scribbling and these had been generally adopted
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THE REGULATION OF SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS
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for the rise of capitalist en ployers some of whom were drawn from
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official industrial supervision in the cloth trade which had developedi
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tricts for improved transport were met by the development of railway
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THE BEGINNINGS OF EXPANSION
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the chief force at work Virginia and the West India Islands attracted
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clothworking Capitalist supervision proved beneficial in these callings
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chiefly practised for subsistence but with a view to the market so that
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on biological lines Practical objects were kept closely in view
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in Ireland was similar but the conditions were very different as the country
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PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM
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organising the Bank of England deprived the Crown of the power
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American revolt to treat Ireland more favourably The Irish in 1783
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PUBLIC FINANCE
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CURRENCY AND CREDIT
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PARLIAMENTARY REGULATION OF COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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wages should be assessed according to plenty or scarcity Parliament
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of the time chiefly took the form of reclaiming land from inundation
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organised under Elizabeth and was developed by the establishment of
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Timerican colonies
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puch schemes had become possible because the landed interest was closely
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communication had often been projected for conveying corn and the
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Whigs endeavoured to promote tillage not merely by protecting
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much imitation of Dutch methods of raising stock and dairy farming
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progress of improvement and enclosure put an end to subsistence farmirls
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citizens in the middle of the seventeenth century Landowners found
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the possibility of receiving regular interest rendered the system popular
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