A Social History of England

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W.B. Clive, University tutorial Press 1d, 1921 - 404 pages
 

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Page 224 - WE do therefore hereby farther ordain, that from and after the Date hereof, no Mill or other Engine for Slitting or Rolling of Iron, or any Plating Forge to work with a Tilt-Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel...
Page 353 - ... there can be little doubt that the status of hired labourers will gradually tend to confine itself to the description of workpeople whose low moral qualities render them unfit for anything more independent: and that the relation of masters and workpeople will be gradually superseded by partnership, in one of two forms: in some cases, association of the labourers with the capitalist; in others, and perhaps finally in all, association of labourers among themselves.
Page 15 - The communal organisation of the peasantry is more ancient and more deeply laid than the manorial order. Even the feudal period shows everywhere traces of a peasant class living and working in economically self-dependent communities under the loose authority of a lord whose claims may proceed from political causes and affect the semblance of ownership, but do not give rise to the manorial connexion between estate and village.
Page 122 - Within one room being large and long, There stood two hundred looms full strong: Two hundred men the truth is so, Wrought in these looms all in a row.
Page 217 - In this situation of affairs we should be extremely wanting to ourselves, if we neglected to improve the favourable opportunity which this general tranquillity gives us, of extending our commerce, upon which the riches and grandeur of this nation chiefly depend. It is very obvious, that nothing would more conduce to the obtaining so public a good, than to make the exportation of our own manufactures, and the importation of the commodities used in the manufacturing of them, as practicable and easy...
Page 194 - ... all the subjects of England had an equal right to trade to the East Indies, unless prohibited by act of parliament.
Page 54 - Henry Ill's time and most villages contributed to the new armies. The bolder serfs either joined the armies or fled to the towns, and even in the villages the free men who held by villein tenure were as eager to commute their services as the serfs were to escape. Only the amount of 'free...
Page 111 - said I, ' by which your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men, and unpeople, not only villages, but towns ; for wherever it is found that the sheep of any soil yield a softer and richer wool than ordinary, there the nobility and gentry, and even those holy men, the abbots, not contented with the old rents which their farms yielded, nor thinking it enough that they, living at their ease, do no good to the...
Page 142 - It was the opinion of the Board that this was the " Rule by which both the wool-grower, the clothier, and " merchant must be governed, that whosoever had a part ''of the gain in profitable times since his Majesty's happy " reign must now in the decay of trade, till that may be " remedied, bear a part of the public loss, as may best con" duce to the good of the public, and the maintenance of
Page 236 - ... for his Majesty's revenue, shall be commanded or levied from British freemen in America, without common consent, by act of provincial assembly there, duly convened for that purpose.

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