The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• Wage labour, see Labourers

• Waste land of manor—
  • enclosure of by manorial authorities, [219–221]
  • encroachments on, [87–89], [285–287]
  • erection of cottages on, [277–278]
  • great extent of, [88–89]
  • improvement of under Statute of Merton, [87], [248]
  • insecurity of tenants on, [285–287]
  • overstocking of, [172], [242–243]
  • reclamation of by capitalists, [394–395]
  • rents of, [140–147]
  • stinting of, [160], [220]

• Wool, see Woollen industry

• Woollen industry—
  • chief manufacture in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, [3], [186]
  • effect of on agrarian conditions, [195–197]
  • encouraged by Government, [197]
  • expansion of in fifteenth century, [113], [196]
  • spread of in rural districts, [114]
  • Schanz’s figures as to growth of, [196]

• Yeomen—
  • accounts of by Bacon, [28]
  • " " Coke, [133]
  • " " Fuller, [36–37]
  • " " Harrison, [132]
  • " " Latimer, [134]
  • " " Reyce, [40]
  • " " Smith, [28]
  • education of children of, [134–135]
  • forcible disseisin of, [37]
  • legal definition of, [27–28]
  • importance of, fiscal, [344–347]
  • " " military, [343–344]
  • " " social, [34–40], [132]
  • national pride in, [20–21]
  • See also Freeholders, Peasants

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INDEX OF PERSONS

• Abbey of St. Albans, the, improvement of wastes by, [87]

• Abbot of Cerne, the, agreement by to enclose, [181]

• " Glastonbury, the, agreement by to enclose, [181]