The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• Population, the manorial, see Peasants, Copyholders, Leaseholders, Freeholders

• Poverty, see Poor Law

• Prices—
  • effects of rise in, [199], [304], [308–310]
  • regulation of, [308]
  • Steffen’s statistics of, [198]

• Programme of peasants—
  • in Pilgrimage of Grace, [334–335]
  • " Norfolk, [335–337]

• Proletariat, peasants not a, [102]

• Protector, the—
  • Act protecting tenants on demesne lands of, [294], [365]
  • attack of colleagues on, [367–368], [370]
  • Court of Requests used by, [367]
  • difficulties of agrarian policy of, [362–364]
  • fall of, [370]
  • proclamation against enclosures issued by, [367]
  • " pardoning rioters issued by, [367]
  • Royal Commission appointed by, [366]
  • See also Council, Court

• Rackrents, see Rents, Fines

• Reaction, under Warwick against Somerset’s agrarian policy, [367–368], [370], [372], [380]

• Reformation, the 339, [380–384]

• Rents—
  • competitive, growth of, [139–147]
  • fixed, demand for in Peasants' Revolt, [146]
  • " effect of on landlords, [199–200], [304–310]
  • " " " peasants, [117–121]
  • " neutralised by exorbitant fines, [118], [120], [305–307]
  • " statistics as to, [115–117]
  • fixing of by commissioners, [354]
  • " " council, [369]
  • paid in kind, [211]
  • per acre of demesne land, [256]
  • racking of, complaints as to, [235], [414]
  • reasonable, demand for, [336]