The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• Bondman, see Villeinage

• Bord land, [95]

• Border—
  • agrarian conservatism on, [63–66], [188–191]
  • copyholders on, [188–191]
  • military importance of numerous tenantry on, [188–191]
  • substitution of leases for copies on, [301–304]

• Border tenure—
  • Coke’s remarks upon, [299]
  • Customs involved in, [299]
  • decision of Courts as to, [299]
  • discussion by Long Parliament as to, [191]
  • effect of Union of Crowns on, [190–191]
  • service with horse and harness, an incident of, [190]

• Boundaries—
  • importance of to commoners, [241]
  • uncertainty of, [235–236]

• Bovate, see Virgate

• Canon Law, the, as to usury, [307]

• Capital—
  • accumulation of by peasants, [82–83], [118]
  • dealings in on money market, [186]
  • investments of in farm stock, [6], [113–115], [170–172], [220]
  • " " " joint-stock companies, [186]
  • " " " land, [7]

• Capitalists—
  • appearance of among peasants, [71], [81–84], [136–139]
  • farming on a large scale by, [6–7], [200–204], [210–230]
  • loans by, [108–110]
  • purchase of land by small, [78–95]
  • results of growth of small, [95–97], [136–139]
  • signs of appearance of large, [215]
  • See also Demesne land, Farmers, Enclosure, Pasture

• Catholic—
  • conspiracy, supposed complicity of peasants in, [329]
  • " fear of, reason for popular agrarian policy, [340–341]
  • landlords, special measures suggested for, [341]
  • revolts, parties in, [318–319], [323–324]