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1. | A Protest at Coventry against a Gild's Exclusiveness, 1495 | 282 |
2. | A Complaint from Coventry as to Inter-Municipal Tariffs, 1498 | 282 |
3. | The Municipal Regulation of Wages at Norwich, 1518 | 282 |
4. | The Municipal Regulation of Markets at Coventry, 1520 | 283 |
5. | The Municipal Regulation of Wages at Coventry, 1524 | 284 |
6. | An Act for Avoiding of Exactions taken upon Apprentices in Cities, Boroughs, and Towns Corporate, 1536 | 284 |
7. | An Act whereby certain Chantries, Colleges, Free Chapels and the Possessions of the same be given to the King's Majesty, 1547 | 286 |
8. | Regrant to Coventry and Lynn of Gild Lands Confiscated under 1 Edward VI, c. xiv (the preceding Act), 1548 | 291 |
9. | A Petition of the Bakers of Rye to the Mayor, Jurats, and Council to prevent the Brewers taking their trade, 1575 | 294 |
10. | Letter to Lord Cobham from the Mayor and Jurats of Rye concerning the Preceding Petition, 1575 | 295 |
11. | The Municipal Regulation of the Entry into Trade at Nottingham, 1578–9 | 295 |
12. | The Municipal Regulation of Markets at Southampton, 1587 | 296 |
13. | The Municipal Regulation of Wages at Chester, 1591 | 296 |
14. | The Company of Journeymen Weavers of Gloucester, 1602 | 297 |
15. | Petition of Weavers who are not Burgesses, 1604–5 | 299 |
16. | Extracts from the London Clothworkers' Court Book, 1537–1627 | 300 |
17. | The Feltmakers Joint-Stock Project, 1611 | 302 |
18. | The Case of the Tailors of Ipswich, 1615 | 305 |
19. | The Grievances of the Journeymen Weavers of London, c. 1649 | 307 |
SECTION III
THE REGULATION OF INDUSTRY BY THE STATE
1. | Proposals for the Regulation of the Cloth Manufacture (temp. Henry VIII) | 317 |
2. | Administrative Difficulties in the Regulation of the Manufacture of Cloth, 1537 | 319 |
3. | An Act Touching Weavers, 1555 | 320 |
4. | Enactment of Common Council of London as to Age of Ending Apprenticeship, 1556 | 323 |
5. | William Cecil's Industrial Programme, 1559 | 323 |
6. | The Statute of Artificers, 1563 | 325 |
7. | Proposals for the Better Administration of the Statute of Artificers, 1572 | 333 |
8. | Draft of a Bill Fixing Minimum Rates for Spinners and Weavers, 1593 | 336 |
9. | Draft Piece-list Submitted for Ratification to the Wiltshire Justices by Clothiers and Weavers, 1602 | 341 |
10. | An Act empowering Justices to fix Minimum Rates of Payment, 1603–04 | 342 |
11. | Administration of Acts Regulating the Manufacture of Cloth, 1603 | 344 |
12. | Assessment made by the Justices of Wiltshire, dealing mainly with other than Textile Workers, 1604 | 345 |
13. | Assessment made by the Justices of Wiltshire, dealing mainly with Textile Workers, 1605 | 351 |
14. | Administration of Wage Clauses of Statute of Artificers, 1605–08 | 352 |
15. | Administration of Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1607–08 | 353 |
16. | The Organisation of the Woollen Industry, 1615 | 354 |
17. | Proceedings on the Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1615 | 356 |
18. | A Petition to Fix Wages Addressed to the Justices by the Textile Workers of Wiltshire, 1623 | 356 |
19. | Appointment by Privy Council of Commissioners to Investigate Grievances of Textile Workers in East Anglia, 1630 | 357 |
20. | Report to Privy Council of Commissioners appointed above, 1630 | 358 |
21. | High Wages in the New World, 1645 | 360 |
22. | Young Men and Maids ordered to enter Service, 1655 | 360 |
23. | Request to Justices of Grand Jury of Worcestershire to assess Wages, 1661 | 361 |
24. | Proceedings on the Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1669 | 361 |
SECTION IV
THE RELIEF OF THE POOR AND THE REGULATION OF PRICES
1. | Regulations made at Chester as to Beggars, 1539 | 366 |
2. | A Proclamation concerning Corn and Grain to be brought into open Markets to be sold, 1545 | 367 |
3. | Administration of Poor Relief at Norwich, 1571 | 369 |
4. | The first Act Directing the Levy of a Compulsory Poor Rate, 1572 | 372 |
5. | The first Act requiring the Unemployed to be set to Work, 1575–6 | 373 |
6. | Report of Justices to Council Concerning Scarcity in Norfolk, 1586 | 373 |
7. | Orders devised by the Special Commandment of the Queen's Majesty for the Relief and Ease of the Present Dearth of Grain within the Realm, 1586 | 374 |
8. | The Poor Law Act, 1601 | 380 |
9. | A note of the Grievances of the Parish of Eldersfield, 1618 | 381 |
10. | Petition to Justices of Wiltshire for Permission to Settle in a Parish, 1618 | 382 |
11. | Letter from Privy Council to Justices of Cloth-making Counties, 1621–2 | 382 |
12. | Letter from Privy Council to the Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex concerning the Employment of the Poor, 1629 | 383 |
13. | The Licensing of Badgers in Somersetshire, 1630 | 385 |
14. | Badgers Licensed at Somersetshire Quarter Sessions, 1630 | 385 |
15. | The Supplying of Bristol with Grain, 1630–1 | 385 |
16. | Proceedings against Engrossers and other Offenders, 1631 | 386 |
17. | Order of Somersetshire Justices Granting a Settlement to a Labourer, 1630–1 | 386 |
18. | Report of Derbyshire Justices on their Proceedings, 1631 | 387 |
19. | Letter from Privy Council to Justices of Rutlandshire, 1631 | 390 |
20. | Judgment in the Star Chamber against an Engrosser of Corn, 1631 | 391 |
SECTION V
THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE
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
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
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
1. | Settlement Law, 1662 | 647 |
2. | Defoe's Pamphlet "Giving Alms no Charity", 1704 | 649 |
3. | The Workhouse Test Act, 1722 | 650 |
4. | Gilbert's Act, 1782 | 652 |
5. | Speenhamland "Act of Parliament", 1795 | 655 |
6. | The Workhouse System, 1797 | 657 |
7. | Two Varieties of the Roundsman System of Relief, 1797 | 660 |
8. | Another Example of the Roundsman System, 1808 | 660 |
9. | A Report of the Poor Law Commission, 1834 | 661 |
10. | The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834 | 663 |
11. | Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order, 1844 | 664 |
SECTION VI
1. | Act abolishing Tenure by Knight Service, etc., 1660 | 670 |
2. | Navigation Act, 1660 | 670 |
3. | Proposals for Free Exportation of Gold and Silver, 1660 | 671 |
4. | An Attack on the Navigation Act, c. 1663 | 672 |
5. | Free Coinage at the Mint Proclaimed, 1666 | 674 |
6. | The East India Company and the Interlopers, 1684 | 675 |
7. | Foundation of the Bank of England, 1694 | 676 |
8. | The Need for the Recoinage of 1696 | 677 |
9. | Speech by Sir Robert Walpole on the Salt Duties, 1732 | 678 |
10. | Pitt's Sinking Fund Act, 1786 | 679 |
11. | The Suspension of Cash Payments, 1797 | 681 |
12. | Pitt's Speech on the Income Tax, 1798 | 683 |
13. | Foreign Trade in the early Nineteenth Century, 1812 | 689 |
14. | Debate on the Corn Laws, 1815 | 692 |
15. | The Corn Law of 1815 | 697 |
16. | Free Trade Petition, 1820 | 698 |
17. | The Foundation of the Anti-Corn-Law League, 1839 | 701 |
18. | The Bank Charter Act, 1844 | 702 |
19. | Debate on the Corn Laws, 1846 | 705 |