The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century
R. H. Tawney
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  • Admission fines, see Fines
  • Agrarian changes, the—
    • causes of, [6–7], [12–13], [185–200]
    • contemporary accounts of, [6–8]
    • general effect of, [403–404]
    • localities most affected by, [153–154], [182], [262], [405]
    • of fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, [11–12], [11–12], [136–147], [161–162]
    • of sixteenth century, [6–8], [147–173], [213–230], [301–310]
    • of eighteenth century, [34], [183–184], [406]
    • part played by capitalist farmers in, [200–202], [213–266]
    • part played by peasants in, [136–173]
    • reaction of on peasantry, [7–8], [231–280]
    • resistance of peasants to, [302–304], [317–340]
    • See also Agriculture, Enclosure, Land, Pasture
  • Agreements to enclose, [151–153], [156–158], [180–182]
  • Agriculture—
    • capitalist, [6–7], [200–204], [210–230]
    • cattle, importance of to, [113–115], [239–242]
    • changes in methods of, see Agrarian changes
    • commercial development, effect of on, [185–188], [195–197]
    • common rights, importance of to, [238–242]
    • communal elements in, [128–131], [159–161], [205–207], [243–246]
    • corn growing, part played by in, [105–112]
    • corn laws, effect of on, [112–113], [197]
    • custom, effect of on, [75–78], [124–131], [292–301]
    • enclosure by peasants, effect of on, [152–153], [158], [169–173]
    • enclosure by manorial authorities, effect of on, [216–223]
    • farmer of demesne, part played by in, [201–204], [210–230]
    • for market, [214–216]
    • for subsistence, [111–112]
    • improvements in, [110–111], [170–172]
    • markets, effect of on, [196–197], [214–215]
    • mediæval, not incompatible with change, [75–97], [172], [404–405]
    • methods of—
      • in Cornwall, [262], [405]
      • " Devonshire, [167], [262], [405]
      • " Essex, [167], [262], [405]
      • " Kent, [167], [262], [405]
      • " Lancashire, [63], [65]
      • " Midlands, [65], [167], [192]
      • " Norfolk, [63], [65], [405]
      • " Northumberland, [63], [65], [189–192]
      • " Suffolk, [63], [262]
      • " Somerset, [110–111], [171], [262], [405]
      • " Staffordshire, [63], [65]
      • " Wiltshire, [63], [65], [212]
      • on demesne farms, [200–230]
      • " monastic estates, [382–383]
      • " peasants' holdings, [105–115]
    • open field system of, see Open field system
    • pasture farming instead of, see Pasture
    • rise in prices, effects of on, [197–200], [304–310]
    • social importance of, [341–347]
    • speculation, effects of on, [381–383]
    • views as to, of Clarkson, [5], [189–190]
    • " " Fitzherbert, [5], [109], [112], [117–118], [150], [151–152], [242]
    • " " Norden, [5], [108], [110–111], [118], [150], [151], [171], [308]
    • woollen industry, effects of on, [6], [195–197]
  • Alien, see Immigration
  • Alienation of land, effect of free, [86], [138–139]
    • fines on, [127]
    • See also Speculation
  • Apprenticeship, effect of on marriage, [104–106]
  • Arable land—
    • backbone of peasants' livelihood, [105–108]
    • common rights, necessary for cultivation of, [239–242]
    • conversion of to pasture, [223–230], [232–233], [258]
    • corn yielded by acre of, [110–111]
    • enclosure of for better cultivation by large farmers, [10], [221–224]
    • enclosure of for better cultivation by peasants, [151–153], [162–164]
    • estimated number of persons maintained by holding of, [261]
    • proportion of to pasture and meadow in Staffordshire, [392–393]
    • proportion of to pasture and meadow on demesne farms, [225–228]
    • proportion of to pasture and meadow on peasants' holdings, [107]
    • reconversion of pasture to—
      • Acts for, [353–355]
      • by Royal Commissions, [359–360], [366–367], [374–375]
      • " Council, [360–361]
      • " Justices of Assize, [376]
      • " Justices of Peace, [386], [418–420]
      • " landlords, [390–391]
  • Aristocracy—
    • acquisition of monastic estates by some of the, [380–384]
    • attack of on Somerset’s land policy, [367–368], [370–372]
    • contrast between mediæval and that of sixteenth century, [191–194]
    • growth of commerce, effect of, on the, [187–188], [191–194]
    • Harrington’s account of social changes in the, [38], [191]
    • landholding peasants not an, [100–102]
    • part played by in Pilgrimage of Grace, [322–324]
    • relations of to tenants in North and South contrasted, [188–191]
    • Tudor policy, effect of on powers of the, [188–195]
    • unpopularity of administrative Courts with the. [397–400]
    • See also Index of Persons, Bath, Brudenell, Darcy, Derby, Englefield, Harrington, Herbert, St. John, Shrewsbury, Saye and Sele, Somerset, Warwick, Willoughby, Wolsey, Yorke, Leicester, Northumberland.
  • Assessment—
    • of subsidies, [169], [344–347]
    • " enclosed land, [169]
    • " wages, [23], [100], [308]