The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• Pasture-farming, see Agriculture, Common Land, Farmers, Pasture

• Pauperism, see Poor Law

• Peasants, the—
  • agricultural methods of, [105–112]
  • contemporary pictures of, [132–134]
  • demands of, [334–337]
  • education of, [134–135]
  • effect of loss of common rights on, [240–241], [253]
  • enclosure by, [151–173]
  • encroachments on waste by, [87–89], [284–287]
  • eviction of, [253–265]
  • helplessness of, [302–304], [325]
  • importance of, fiscal, [344–347]
  • " " military, [343–344]
  • independence of, [29–30], [34–39], [132–134], [325–328]
  • leasing of demesne by, [94–95], [204–210]
  • national pride in, [20–21],132–134
  • pauperism among, [270], [273–279]
  • prosperity of, [132–134], [325]
  • protection of by Government, [316–317], [351–400]
  • rebellions of, [317–340]
  • rents of, [115–121], [141–147]
  • size of holdings of, [32–33], [64–65]
  • upward movement among, [72], [75], [81–84], [96–98], [136]
  • See also Agriculture, Copyholders, Freeholders, Leaseholders, Tenants at will

• Pilgrimage of Grace—
  • agrarian demands put forward in, [322–324], [334–335]
  • classes taking part in, [318–319], [322–324]

• Plague, see Great Plague, the

• Plantations, emigration to suggested, [270]

• Ploughmen, military importance of, [343–344]

• Policy, agrarian, see Council, Court, Acts of Parliament

• Poor Law, the—
  • agrarian causes of, [272–275]
  • debates in Parliament on, [273–275]
  • expenditure on caused by depopulation, [278–279], [418]
  • Mackay’s view as to origin of, [266–267]
  • mobility discouraged by, [270–272]
  • Orders of 1631, [279]
  • slow development of, [269]
  • vagrancy chief problem of, [268–269]

• Population, checks upon, [104–106]