The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• King, see Council, Court, and Index of Persons

• Knight service, tenure by, [29]

• Labour, see Labourers

• Labour services—
  • Commutation of, [52], [58], [93], [98]
  • of copyholders, [52–53]

• Labourers—
  • assessment of wages of, [23], [100], [308]
  • at Axholme, [104]
  • commons used by, [247]
  • effect of enclosing on habits of, [106]
  • immobility of, [270–272]
  • immigration to towns of, [275–277]
  • in Norfolk, [21–22]
  • " Worcestershire, [23]
  • " Yorkshire, [22]
  • King’s estimate of number of, [21]
  • on monastic estates, [22]
  • scarcity of, [100]
  • social unimportance of, [342]
  • unemployment of, [232–233]

• Land—
  • speculation in, [78–86], [381–382]
  • wide distribution of, [99–104]
  • See also Agriculture, Arable land, Common land, Demesne, Holdings, Meadow land, Pasture, Waste

• Landholders, see Peasants

• Landless population, see Labourers

• Landlords, see Manorial authorities

• Land tenure, see Copyholders, Freeholders, Leaseholders