The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• Marriage, age of, [104–106]

• Meadow land—
  • belonging to a gild, [369–370]
  • divided among peasants, [208]
  • enclosed by manorial authorities, [219–221]
  • " " peasants, [157]

• Mercantile system, the, [185], [313–315]

• Merchants, see Commerce

• Merchet, immunity from claimed by peasants, [53–54]

• Middleman, the farmer a, [234]

• Midlands—
  • chiefly affected by enclosure and conversion, [8–9], [167], [262–263], [405], [416–417]
  • economic condition of, [63–66], [107]
  • granary of country, [262]
  • legal classification of tenants on manors in, [24–26]

• Military defence, importance of peasants for, [343–344], [415], [416], [418]

• Mobility of labour checked by law, [270–272]

• Monasteries—
  • agriculture on estates of, [225]
  • demesne lands of leased, [203]
  • oppression of tenants by, [43], [382]
  • pasture-farming on estates of, [225], [382]
  • persons acquiring estates of, [380]
  • political effects of dissolution of, [383–384]
  • rebellions partly motived by, [318–319], [322–323]
  • social effects of dissolution of, [380–384]
  • views of Aske on dissolution of, [319], [383]
  • " " Cobbett on dissolution of, [382]
  • " " Hibbert on dissolution of, [383]
  • " " Gasquet on dissolution of, [383]