The Pre-industrial Economy in England, 1500-1750 |
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agricultural arable areas became capital cent cloth clothiers coin commercial common companies consumers convertible husbandry corn costs countryside crafts craftsmen crops crown customs demand districts draperies early eighteenth century early seventeenth century East East Anglia economic policy employment English estates Europe example factors of production farmers farming foreign gentry gilds grain important incomes increased industrial revolution interest Inventories labour land landlords landowners late seventeenth century leather Leicestershire loans London manorial manufacturers ment middlemen Midlands monopolies occupations output overseas trade parishes parliament pasture poor poverty pre-industrial economy pre-industrial England Privy Council production profit prosperity putting-out R. H. Tawney rates raw materials regions regulations rent rising rural seventeenth and early ships sixteenth and early sixteenth and seventeenth sixteenth century social south Yorkshire Statute Statute of Artificers supply tenants textile tion towns Tudor urban villages W. G. Hoskins wages wealth west Midlands wool woollen