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adopted agriculture aliens attempt Bank of England banks became began bullion canals capital centres charter chief coal colonies commercial considerable corn corn laws cotton craft gilds craftsmen crown cultivation districts economic eighteenth century enclosure engine England English merchants enormous established Europe export factory fairs farmers farming growth important improved increased interests invention iron industry joint stock journeymen labour land later 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 organised owing parishes parliament passed pasture paupers period Poor Law population privileges problem produce profitable prosperity protection railway raw materials reform result roads routes secure settlement laws seventeenth century ships sixteenth century Spain steel supply took towns trade unions transport Tudors turnpike trusts villages villeins wages wealth weavers wool workers