[2] That the land did not contain a population adequate for its cultivation is evident from a Statute of 1350 which allows the people of the Marches of Wales (and Scotland) to go about in search of work at harvest-time, as they had been accustomed to do aforetime. (Rot. Parl. II. 234.) Work and Wages, pp. 131-2.
[3] Cf. Thackeray, The Four Georges, p. 320, “decayed provincial capitals, out of which the great wen of London has sucked all the life.”
[4] Macaulay. History of Eng., Vol. I. pp. 165-6. Infra, Chap. VII.
[5] Cf. infra, [Chap. VII.]
[6] Brentano, 44, 52, 54, 58. Green, Short Hist., 193. G. Howell, Conflicts of Capital and Labour, 22-25, 29, 31.
[7] Cunningham, Growth of Industry, 212. Brentano, 90, 95.
[8] Cf. infra, [Chap. V.]
[9] Cf. especially [Chap. VII.]
[10] The Hist. and Development of Gilds. Cf. especially Note 1.
[11] Ibid. 8. “The objects of the ἔρανοι were of the most varied description; ... associations of this kind were very common in the democratic states of Greece, and to this class the numberless political and religious societies, corporations, unions for commerce and shipping, belonged.” Boeckh, Public Economy of Athens, p. 243.