Outlines of English Industrial History

Adam Smith advantage agriculture artisans Bank Bank of England Black Death bullion capital capitalist carried Chapter clothing trade colonies commercial common Company connexion Conquest Corn Law craft-gilds crop Crown Danegeld demand difficulties districts Domesday Book economic Edition Edward Edward III Edward VI effects eighteenth century employment England English Englishmen expedient export factory farming favour fifteenth foreign gave gild merchant Henry VIII History important increased India industry influence interest introduced Ireland king labour land lord machinery manor manufacture ment municipal Norman Norman Conquest obtained organisation Parliament payments period political possible procure progress prosperity realm recognised regulation reign rendered Richard II Roman royal rural secure seems sheep-farming silver similar skill social spinning Statute Statute of Labourers subsistence supply taxation three field system tillage tion towns Tudor villeins vols wages weavers whole wool