[45] J. Rossus, Historia Regum Angliæ (T. Hearne).
[46] See below, pp. [161–162].
[47] See e.g. More’s Utopia quoted above, and Pauli, Drei volkswirthschaftliche Denkscriften aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII. von England. It is suggested that if the council will only fix the price which stappellers and clothmakers are to pay for raw wool, “it shall cause the pasturers of sheep to open their enclosures and suffer the more earth to be wrought by works of husbandry.”
[48] See the discussion between Mr. Leadam and Professor Gay on the wool prices of Thorold Roger in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., New Series, vol. xiv. The best account of the price movements of the sixteenth century is contained in Studien zur Geschichte der Englischen Lohnarbeiter, Band I., by Gustaf F. Steffen.
[49] Hasbach, A History of the English Agricultural Labourer, pp. 31–33.
[50] See below, pp. [197–200] and [304–310].
[51] e.g. by Hasbach, op. cit. p. 37. Gay, Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., vol. xviii. Contrast Miss Leonard, Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., vol. xix. On the subject of the policy of the State towards the agrarian problem, see below, Part III., chap. i.
[52] Preface to The Commonweal of this Realm of England (ed. Lamond).