The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• Equality—
  • of holdings, disappearance of in South and East, [63–66]
  • " " influence of trade on, [66], [84–85]
  • " " maintained in dividing demesne, [206–207]
  • " " survival of in North, [63–66], [189–190]

• Escheats of freehold land unascertainable, [30]

• Eviction—
  • liability to of copyholders, [287–301]
  • " " leaseholders, [282–287]
  • " " tenants at will, [282–287]
  • number displaced by, [260–265]
  • See also Depopulation

• Exchange, the, [186–187]

• Exchanging of strips, [164–165], [395–396]

• Exports of woollen piece goods, [196–197]
• " " corn, see Corn

• Famines—
  • fear of, [35]
  • local, [112]

• Farm, see Demesne, Farmers

• Farmers—
  • acreage occupied by large, [212]
  • advantage to lord of letting land to large, [213–216]
  • agents through whom agrarian change took place, [201–202]
  • capitalists among, [215–216]
  • consolidation of strips by, [221–223], [254–256]
  • conversion to pasture by, [225–228]
  • demesnes leased to large, [209–211]
  • disputes between peasants and, [234–237]
  • economic conditions favouring, [214–216]
  • enclosing practised by, of arable land, [221–223]
  • " " " common meadow and pasture, [219–221]
  • importance in sixteenth century of large, [204]
  • manorial rights leased to, [211]
  • peasant subtenants of, [211]
  • soldiers recruited from, [343–344]
  • subsidies collected from, [344–347], [415], [418]

• Feudal—
  • conditions of land tenure, decay of in South, [191–195]
  • " " " among freeholders, [29–30]
  • " " " Harrington on decay of, [38], [191]
  • conditions of land tenure, survival of in North, [190–191]
  • lords, character of, [191–192]