A Concise Economic History of Britain of Britain from the Earliest Times

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Mesolithic Britain p 3 Neolithic Britain p 4 The Megalithic people
11
The coming of iron p 14 The Belgic kingdoms p 17 Coined money
18
Population and language p 22 Villas and villages p 23 Manufactures
29
tribal capitals p 31 coloniae
35
SETTLEMENT
40
Lords and men p 44 The hide p 46 Crops and beasts p
46
Church estates in the eleventh century p 53 Two and threecourse
54
ENGLAND UNDER THE NORMAN CONQUERORS page
69
Merchant Adventurers and the cloth trade p 166 Other exports from
171
the tenth and fifteenth the polltax p 175 Customs
181
THE COURSE OF PRICES page
186
ironworking p 189 shipbuilding p 190 the cloth
193
Districts enclosed before Tudor times p 194 Enclosure from the waste
200
BOND STATUS AND COPYHOLD TENURE page
202
ENGLISH RURAL SOCIETY WAGES AND THEIR
208
The prosperity of the yeomanry p 208 Prosperous gentry p 208 Hus
214

The population of Britain þ 77 Towns p 78 Villages and hamlets
78
the Vale of York p 81 the Fens p 82 heath moor
84
Welshry and Englishry p 87 The West
92
Villeinage p 94 The tests of villeinage weekwork and boonwork
101
Woolgrowing p 105 Landlords flocks p 105 Peasants flocks p
107
CHANGES IN ENGLISH AGRICULTURE AFTER 1300 page
110
THE GREAT PESTILENCE AND THE PASSING
116
The market for agricultural produce p 107 Money wages and prices
118
The Rising of 1381 and its causes p 119 The gradual disappearance
123
Merchant gilds in Scotland p 129 Religious gilds twelfthcentury trade
133
The Jews p 139 The Italians Florentine merchants and financiers
143
THE INTERNATIONAL FAIRS OF ENGLAND page
150
burellers and cloth
159
ENGLISH CLOTH EXPORTS OTHER
165
Turnips and clover p 219 Hops saffron and other crops p 220 Grass
221
The progress of industrial technique waterpower machines in the textile
229
English and colonial shipbuilding p
235
THE DOMINANCE OF ENGLISH WOOL
237
Spinning p 239 Village weavers p 240 The clothing industry in East
244
Foreign markets and unemployment p 249 Trade depression under
252
Apprenticeship under the Act of 1563 p 256 The London Companies
259
Hudsons Bay Company p 267 Projectors William Paterson þ
268
The Bank of England p 272 Marine insurance p 274 Fire and life
274
The two fallacies of mercantilism p 276 Mercantilism and national
281
Elizabeths revenues the subsidy James I and Charles I p 285 The Long
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Provision for the poor before 1500 p 294 Vagrants p 295 Early Tudor
299
INDEX page
306

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