1.[Letters Patent granted to the Cabots by Henry VII], 1496[400]
2.[The Merchant Adventurers' Case for Allowing the Export of Undressed Cloth], 1514-36[402]
3.[The Rise in Prices, the Encouragement of Corn growing, and the Protection of Manufactures], c. 1549[404]
4.[Sir Thomas Gresham on the Fall of the Exchanges], 1558[416]
5.[The reasons why Bullion is Exported] (temp. Eliz.)[419]
6.[The Italian Merchants Explain the Foreign Exchanges], 1576[420]
7.[An Act Avoiding divers Foreign Wares made by Handicraftsmen Beyond the Seas], 1562[424]
8.[An Act Touching Cloth Workers and Cloth Ready Wrought to be Shipped over the Sea], 1566[426]
9.[Incorporation of a Joint Stock Mining Company], 1568[427]
10.[An Act for the Increase of Tillage], 1571[428]
11.[Instructions for an English Factor in Turkey], 1582[431]
12. [The Advantages of Colonies], 1583[434]
13.[Lord Burghley to Sir Christopher Hatton on the State of Trade], 1587[438]
14.[A List of Patents and Monopolies], 1603[440]
15.[Instructions Touching the Bill for Free Trade], 1604[443]
16.[The Establishment of a Company to export Dyed and Dressed Cloth in place of the Merchant Adventurers], 1616-17[454]
17.[Sir Julius Cæsar's proposals for Reviving the Trade in Cloths], 1616[460]
18.[The Grant of a Monopoly for the Manufacture of Soap], 1623[461]
19.[The Statute of Monopolies], 1623-4[465]
20.[An Act for the Free Trade of Welsh Cloths], 1623-4[468]
21.[The Economic Policy of Strafford in Ireland], 1636[470]
22.[Revocation of Commissions, Patents and Monopolies Granted by the Crown], 1639[472]
23.[Ordinance establishing an Excise], 1643[475]

[PART III: 1660-1846]
SECTION I
[INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS]

1.[Defoe's account of the West Riding Cloth Industry], 1724[482]
2.[Defoe's account of the Woollen Trade] (temp. George II)[483]
3.[Defoe's account of the Corn Trade] (temp. George II)[487]
4.[Defoe's account of the Coal Trade] (temp. George II)[491]
5.[A description of Middlemen in the Woollen Industry], 1739[492]
6.[Report on the Condition of Children in Lancashire Cotton Factories], 1796[495]
7.[Newcastle Coal Vend], 1771-1830[497]
8.[The Old Apprenticeship System in the Woollen Industry], 1806[499]
9.[A Petition of Cotton Weavers], 1807[500]
10.[Depression of Wages and its Causes in the Cotton Industry], 1812[501]
11.[Evidence of the Condition of Children in Factories], 1816[502]
12.[Change in the Cotton Industry and the Introduction of Power Loom Weaving], 1785-1807[505]
13.[Evidence by Factory Workers of the Condition of Children], 1832[510]
14.[Women's and Children's Labour in Mines], 1842[516]
15.[Description of the Condition of Manchester by John Robertson, Surgeon], 1840[519]

SECTION II
[AGRICULTURE AND ENCLOSURE]

1.[Enclosure Proceedings in the Court of Chancery], 1671[525]
2.[Advice to the Stewards of Estates], 1731[526]
3.[Procedure for Enclosure by Private Act], 1766[528]
4.[Farming in Norfolk], 1771[530]
5.[A Petition against Enclosure], 1797[531]
6.[Extracts on Enclosure from the Surveys of the Board of Agriculture], 1798-1809[532]
7.[Arthur Young's Criticism of Enclosure], 1801[536]
8.[Enclosure Consolidating Act], 1801[537]
9.[General Enclosure Act], 1845[541]

SECTION III
[GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF WAGES, CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT, AND PUBLIC HEALTH]

1.[An Act against Truck], 1701[545]
2.[A Wages Assessment at a Warwickshire Quarter Sessions], 1738[546]
3.[Spitalfields Weavers Act], 1773[547]
4.[A Middlesex Wages Assessment under the Spitalfields Act], 1773[551]
5.[Agricultural Labourers' Proposals for a Sliding Scale of Wages], 1795[552]
6.[Debates on Whitbread's Minimum Wage Bill], 1795-6[554]
7.[Arbitration Act for the Cotton Industry], 1800[568]
8.[Amendment of the Arbitration Act], 1804[570]
9.[The First Factory Act], 1802[571]
9A.[ Minutes of Committee on Children in Factories][573]
10.[Calico Printers' Petition for Regulation], 1804[573]
11.[Report on Calico Printers' Petition], 1806[574]
12.[Cotton Weavers' Petition against the Repeal of 5 Elizabeth], c. 4, 1813[576]
13.[Debates on the Regulation of Apprentices], 1813-14[577]
14.[Resolutions of the Watchmakers on Apprenticeship], 1817[588]
15.[Report of the Committee on the Ribbon Weavers], 1818[590]
16.[The Cotton Factory Act of 1819][591]
17.[Oastler's First Letter on Yorkshire Slavery], 1830[592]
18.[Factory Act], 1833[594]
19.[Proposals for a Wages Board for Hand-Loom Weavers], 1834[596]
20.[Coal Mines Regulation Act], 1842[598]
21.[Debate on Factory Legislation], 1844[599]
22.[Factory Act], 1844[612]
23.[Recommendations of the Commission on the Health of Towns], 1845[614]

SECTION IV
[COMBINATIONS OF WORKMEN]

1.[A Strike of the Journeymen Feltmakers], 1696-99[619]
2.[A Petition of Master Tailors against Combination among the Journeymen], 1721[622]
3.[A Dispute in the Northumberland and Durham Coal Industry], 1765[625]
4.[Sickness and Unemployment Benefit Clubs among the Woolcombers], 1794[626]
5.[Combination Act], 1799[626]
6.[Combination Act], 1800[627]
7.[The Scottish Weavers' Strike], 1812[631]
8.[The Repeal of the Combination Acts], 1824[633]
9.[A Prosecution of Strikers under the Common Law of Conspiracy], 1810[635]
10.[An Act Revising the Law affecting Combinations], 1825[636]
11.[The Conviction of the Dorchester Labourers], 1834[638]
12.[An Address of the Working Men's Association to Queen Victoria], 1837[641]
13.[A Chartist Manifesto on the Sacred Month], 1839[642]
14.[The Rochdale Pioneers], 1844[643]

SECTION V
[THE RELIEF OF THE POOR]