Cultivation, methods of (Saxon), 40
Currency (under Henry VIII.), 206;
(Elizabeth), 235; (William III.),
300
Customary tenants, 56
Customs tariff, 375
Cuxham Manor, 79
Factory Acts, 391-406; (summary of),
Factory, germs of, 146
early, 347; increase of, 348;
life in, 388
Factory system, results of, 381, 388;
factory agitation, 391-405
Fairs, 42, 140
Famine, 151, 178
Farmers, see Agriculture
Fens drained, 268
Feudal system, 60, 98
Fifteenth century changes, 193
Finances (Ed. VI.), 210, 219, 220
Firma unius noctis, 54
Firma burgi, 90, 188
Fitzherbert, 171
Flanders, trade with, 229
Flemish weavers, 105, 121, 127, 129
Flemish immigrants, 241
Foreign trade (Saxon), 43; mediæval,
223-233; (sixteenth century), 240;
(seventeenth century), 297; (later),
455, 457
Forests, 17, 313
France, 291, 293
Frauds, statute of, 277
Free and unfree, 38, 73, 76
Free Trade, 456
(in Frobisher, 231
Fuggers, the, 210
Early Britain, people of, 10; condi-
tion of, 11
East India Co., 285, 293, 463
Economic factors in history, 473
Edward III. and manufactures, 127;
and staple, 136
Edward VI., 209; his ministers, 209,
234
Elizabethan seamen, 221, 231
Elizabethan England, 234-263
Enclosures, 119, 213, 215; results
of (sixteenth century), 216-218;
(seventeenth and eighteenth cen-
turies), 274; (benefits of), 275;
(number of), 335
Enumerated articles, the, 366
Exports, early, 15, 32; (Norman
period), 100; (sixteenth century),
240; (later), 297, 455, 457
Manufactures, 104, 121, 125; (for-
eign), 126; (and politics), 132; (in
Elizabethan period), 237; (later),
305, 309; (domestic system), 336
see Manufacturing population, 327
Manures, 437
Henry VIII., expenses of, 199; popu-
larity of, 201; and monasteries,
202; and coinage, 206
Huguenots, in England, 308
Husbandry (book), 113, and
Agriculture
Huskisson, 456
Imports, 16, 32, 45, 101, 143, 224-227,
229, 297, 366, 455, 457
Income of different classes (eighteenth
century), 334
Independence, American, 369
India, 285, 293
Industrial History, 3, 473
Industry, Celtic, 12-14
in Roman period, 31
Intercursus Magnus, 123
Inventors and inventions of eigh-
teenth century, 343
Iron age, 9
Iron, 15; (iron trade), 313, 353
Isolation of villages, 41
Markets, 42, 107, 138; (foreign), 469
Mark theory, the, 48; (criticism), 49
Marshes, 18
Mary, Queen, 234
Mayor, 188
Mercantile theory, the, 359-364
Mercantile system, the present, 469
Merchants and politics, 138
Merton, statute of, 214
Methuen treaty, 302
Middle Ages, close of, 180, 194
Migration of population from South
to North, 350
Mining (early), 9; (Roman), 31;
(mediæval), 315; (later), 316;
(eighteenth century), 352
Monasteries, dissolution of, 202-205
Monopolies (of towns), 239; (other),
242-246; (Cockayne's), 306
Municipal institutions, 189
Railways, 458
Raleigh, 231
Reform, parliamentary, 379
Regulation of prices, 139
Rent (in kind), 75; rise of, 213; (in
seventeenth century), 267; later,
279; (eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries), 428
Revolt, the Peasants', 161-172
Revolution, the Industrial (eighteenth
century), 323, 341; (and French),
342, 371, 379; (political results of
industrial), 378, 418; (in agricul-
ture), 430
Richard II., 166, 170
Roads and Rivers, 16
Roads, Roman, 22
mediæval, 354
(eighteenth century), 355
Romans in Britain, 21-31
Roses, Wars of the, 132, 195
Taxation, 99; (on wool), 123; (in
the Continental War), 373
Telegraphs, 458
Ten hours' day, agitation for, 397,
Tenants, classes of, 112
Thegen, 37
Tories, 321; (and factory acts), 405
Towns (Roman), 23; (Saxon), 42;
(Domesday), 69; later, 86-97;
origin of, 86; privileges of, 89;
town life (mediæval), 90, 134;
decay of, 145; constitution of,
187; decay of, 190; new, 191
Townshend, Lord, 429
Trade, Free, 456
Trade, early, 15; in Roman times,
31; foreign (Norman), 100;
foreign (fourteenth to sixteenth
century), 224; (sixteenth century),
240; (seventeenth century), 297;
(in 1820), 455; (recent), 455, 457,
461; (depression in), 467
Trades Unions, 419, 449, 471
Union of Scotland and England, 302
Unions, Trades, see Trades Unions
Wage-earning class, 111, 150
Wages, (mediæval), 173, 175; (six-
teenth century), 253; (assess-
ment of), 253; (in seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries), 281;
Wealth, distribution of (counties),
Wealth and wars of England, 356
Weaving, 6, 14; (Flemish), 105;
(sixteenth century), 238; (inven-
tions in), 344
Wedgewood, 315
Whigs and Tories, 321
Wiklif, 163
William III., 289
Willoughby, 231
Winchester fair, 142
Wool and politics, 121
Wool, 113, 120 (and ch. ix), 124,
305, 309
Woollen manufacture and trade, 120;
(ch. ix), 305, 309
Working classes, see Labourers
Worsted trade, 129
(in nineteenth century), 424; (agri- | Yeomen, 157, 183; decay of, 276
cultural), 447; (recent), 470
War, the Continental, 370, 372;
cost of, 373, 424
Wars of nineteenth century, 463
Watt, James, 345
|