§ 6. Drawbacks

[28] The question is more fully treated in Industry in England, ch. xii. (end).

§ 7. The close of the Middle Ages

[29] Cf. note 7, p. [244.]

But before the next century was completed part of the nation was impoverished, the labourers were degraded and despoiled, and a long legacy of pauperism and misery was bequeathed to the country by the wastefulness and extravagance of Henry VIII.

PERIOD IV FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE EVE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1509–1760)

CHAPTER I THE MISDEEDS OF HENRY VIII., AND ECONOMIC CHANGES IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

§ 1. Henry VIII.’s wastefulness

§ 2. The dissolution of the monasteries

§ 3. Results of the suppression