The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• Unemployment—
  • caused by enclosure, [232–233], [273], [278]
  • methods of coping with, [269]

• Uses, Statute of, [323]

• Usury, [20], [109], [147], [307], [349]

• Vagrancy, chief feature of pauperism in sixteenth century, [268]
  • effect of on towns, [275–277]
  • " " open field/villages, [277–279]
  • obstacles in the way of, [270–272]
  • punishment of, [44], [269]

• Village community, the, see Manor, the

• Villagers, see Peasants

• Villeinage—
  • attitude of State towards, [43], [359]
  • compatible with considerable prosperity, [43]
  • examples of in sixteenth century, [42–43]
  • reference to in Somersett’s case, [44]
  • traces of among copyholders, [52–54]
  • views on of Fitzherbert, [46]
  • " " Norden, [46]
  • " " Savine, [41]
  • " " Smith, [46]

• Virgates—
  • aggregation of in fewer hands, [59–60], [66–70], [72–75]
  • examples of arrangement of, [66–67], [73–74]
  • use of as a measure, [67–68]

• Virgators, see Virgates

• Wages, assessment of, [23], [100], [308]