The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

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GENERAL INDEX

• Abbeys, see Monasteries

• Act of Parliament, Enclosure by in 18th century, [183–184]

• Acts of Parliament—
  • Statute of Merton, 1235, [87], [180], [248], [371–372]
  • 15 Hen. VI. c. 2, sanctioning export of corn, [113],[197]
  • 23 Hen. VI. c. 5, sanctioning export of corn, [113], [197]
  • 3 Ed. IV. c. 2, restricting import of corn, [113], [197]
  • 4 Hen. VII. c. 14, against depopulation, [11], [353]
  • 6 Hen. VIII. c. 5, against depopulation, [353]
  • 7 Hen. VIII. c. 1, against depopulation, [353]
  • 25 Hen. VIII. c. 13, against depopulation, [354]
  • 27 Hen. VIII. c. 25, for relieving impotent beggars, [269]
  • 1 Ed. VI. c. 2, legalising enslavement of vagabonds, [44], [269]
  • 2 and 3 Ed. VI. c. 12, giving good titles to Duke of Somerset’s tenants, [294], [365]
  • 3 and 4 Ed. VI. c. 3, re-enacting Statute of Merton with amendments, [371–372]
  • 5 and 6 Ed. VI. c. 5, against depopulation, [354]
  • 2 and 3 Phil, and M. c. 2, against depopulation, [354]
  • 5 Eliz. c. 2, Statute of Artificers, [23], [45], [100], [353]
  • 14 Eliz. c. 5, directing compulsory assessment for relief of poor, [269]
  • 18 Eliz. c. 3, directing provision of materials for setting unemployed to work, [269]
  • 31 Eliz. c. 7, requiring cottages to be let with 4 acres of land attached, [277], [354]
  • 35 Eliz. c. 7, against depopulation, but repeating clauses in previous Acts forbidding conversion to pasture, [354]
  • 39 Eliz. c. 1, against depopulation, [354–355]
  • 39 Eliz. c. 2, against depopulation, [354–355]
  • 4 Jac. I. c. 11, for enclosure of certain parishes in Herefordshire, [395]
  • 21 Jac. I. c. 28, continuing certain Acts and repealing others, [355]

• Action of trespass—
  • copyholders' remedy by, [289]
  • freeholders' remedy by, [248]

• Administration—
  • of land by peasants, [102], [159–161], [244–246]. See also Agriculture, Commons, Communism of Acts against Depopulation—
  • of Acts against Depopulation—
    • difficulty of, [377–386]
    • irregularity of, [391–393]
    • occasional effectiveness of, [386–387], [390–392]
    • opposition of landlords to, [367–368], [370], [397–398]
    • petition of rebels for, [335], [337]

• Administrative Courts, see Council, Courts

• Administrative interference—
  • with economic matters, [355–357]
  • with enclosures—
    • under Henry VII., [359–360]
    • " Henry VIII., [360–362]
    • " Edward VI., [362–372]
    • " Elizabeth, [372–374]
    • " James I., [374–375]
    • " Charles I., [376–377]
  • final cessation of, [397–400]