An Outline of the Economic History of England to 1946 |
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adopted agriculture aliens America Bank of England became began Britain canals capital centres charter chief coal colonies commercial considerable corn corn laws cotton craft gilds craftsmen crown cultivation economic eighteenth century employment enclosure engine English merchants established Europe export factory fairs farmers farming foreign gold growth important improved increased interests invention iron industry labour land Levant Company livery companies London lord machinery mainly manorial manorial system manufactured ment mercantilist methods Middle Ages mines monopoly Navigation Acts nineteenth century open field system organisation owing parishes parliament passed pasture paupers payment period Poor Law population privileges problem produce profitable prosperity protection railway raw materials reform result roads schemes secure settlement laws seventeenth century ships sixteenth century Spain supply tion took towns trade unions transport Tudors turnpike trusts villages villeins wages wealth weavers whole wool workers