An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

by Edward Potts Cheyney

Mediæval Trade and Commerce

• [Markets and Fairs]
• [Trade Relations between Towns]
• [Foreign Trading Relations]
• [The Italian and Eastern Trade]
• [The Flanders Trade and the Staple]
• [The Hanse Trade]
• [Foreigners settled in England]
• [Bibliography]

CHAPTER V

The Black Death and the Peasants' Rebellion

Economic Changes of the Later Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries

• [National Affairs from 1338 to 1461]
• [The Black Death and its Effects]
• [The Statutes of Laborers]
• [The Peasants' Rebellion of 1381]
• [Commutation of Services]
• [The Abandonment of Demesne Farming]
• [The Decay of Serfdom]
• [Changes in Town Life and Foreign Trade]
• [Bibliography]

CHAPTER VI

The Breaking up of the Mediæval System

Economic Changes of the Later Fifteenth and the Sixteenth Centuries

• [National Affairs from 1461 to 1603]
• [Enclosures]
• [Internal Divisions in the Craft Gilds]
• [Change of Location of Industries]
• [The Influence of the Government on the Gilds]
• [General Causes and Evidences of the Decay of the Gilds]
• [The Growth of Native Commerce]
• [The Merchants Adventurers]
• [Government Encouragement of Commerce]
• [The Currency]
• [Interest]
• [Paternal Government]
• [Bibliography]