Religion and the rise of capitalism

by R. H. Tawney

[106] Dicey, Law and Public Opinion in England, 1905, pp. 400-1.

[107] The Humble Petition of Thousands of well-affected Persons inhabiting the City of London, Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, Hamlets, and Places adjacent (Bodleian Pamphlets, The Levellers’ Petitions, c. 15, 3 Linc.). See also G. P. Gooch, English Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century, 1898.

[108] Camden Society, The Clarke Papers, ed. C. H. Firth, 1891-4, vol. ii, pp. 217-21 (letter from Winstanley to Fairfax and the Council of War, Dec. 8, 1649).

[109] Records of the Borough of Leicester, 1603-88, ed. Helen Stocks, 1923, pp. 370, 414, 428-30.

[110] John Moore, op. cit. (see note [44], above), p. 13. See also E. C. K. Gonner, Common Land and Enclosure, 1912, pp. 53-5.

[111] Camden Society, The Clarke Papers, vol. i, pp. 299 seqq., lxvii seqq.

[112] The Diary of Thomas Burton, ed. J. T. Rutt, 1828, vol. i, pp. 175-6. A letter from Whalley, referring to agitations against enclosure in Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, will be found in Thurloe, State Papers, vol. iv, p. 686.

[113] Joseph Lee, A Vindication of a Regulated Enclosure, 1656, p. 9.

[114] Aquinas, Summa Theol., 2^a 2^æ, Q. xxxii, art. v.

[115] Dives et Pauper, 1493, Prol., chap. vii; cf. Pecock, The Repressor of over-much Blaming of the Clergy, pt. iii, chap. iv, pp. 296-7. For an excellent account of the medieval attitude towards the poor, see B. L. Manning, The People’s Faith in the Time of Wyclif, 1919, chap. x.