The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• Strikes, agrarian, [131], [330]

• Strips—
  • advantage of scattered, [103–104]
  • difficulty of enclosing, [162–163]
  • exchanging of, [164–165]
  • formed into compact blocks by peasants, [163–165]
  • " " " " manorial authorities, [221–223]
  • inconvenience of to manorial authorities, [254–255]
  • merged in demesne farm, [256]
  • picture of, in maps, [163], [222–223]

• Subletting of land by peasants, [80–81]

• Subsidiary income of peasants from woollen industry, [114–115]

• Subsidies—
  • assessment of enclosed land to, [169]
  • difficulty of collecting, [346]
  • how assessed, [344–345]
  • payment of by yeomen, [345–346]

• Subsistence, farming for, [111–112]

• Sub-tenants, taking of forbidden, [275–276]

• Surplus over rent retained by tenants, [118–121], [304–305]

• Surveyors—
  • account of agrarian conditions by, [5]
  • attitude of in Northumberland, [189–191]
  • unpopularity of, [349]

• Tallages, [53–54]