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An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of EnglandCheyney, Edward Potts

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An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

Name: An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
Author: Cheyney, Edward Potts

Cheyney, Edward Potts

Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Maps; Industries -- Great Britain

Pageants, 159.
  Parcels post, 275.
  Parish councils, 243, 269.
  Parliament, foundation of, 26.
  Paternal government, 173.
  Peasant proprietorship, 270.
  Peasants' rebellion, 111.
  Peel, Sir Robert (the elder), 247.
  Peel, Sir Robert (the younger), 230.
  Peruzzi, 91.
  Pie Powder Courts, 78.
  Pilgrimage of Grace, 146.
  Plymouth Company, 190.
  Poitiers, 97.
  Poll tax, 113.
  Poor Priests, 112.
  Portugal, 83, 190.
  Post-office Savings Bank, 274.
  Power-loom, 210.
  Prehistoric Britain, 4.
  Private Enclosure Acts, 217.
  Privy Council, 138.
  Profit-sharing, 307.
  Puritans, 140, 178.


  Railway Regulation Act, 260.
  Reaper, 49.
  Reeve, 40.
  Reformation, 138.
  Reform of Parliament, 241.
  Regrators, 68.
  Regulated Companies, 174.
  Relief, 21, 41.
  Religious gilds, 71, 158.
  Rents of Assize, 41.
  Reorganized Companies, 187.
  Restoration, 180.
  Revolution, Industrial, 213.
  Revolution of 1688, 181.
  Ricardo, David, 226.
  Rochdale Pioneers, 296.
  Rochdale plan, 296.
  Romans in Britain, 5.
  Roses, Wars of the, 99.
  Russia Company, 166.
  _Rusticus_, 43.


  St. Albans, 118.
  St. Edmund's Abbey, 117.
  St. Helen of Beverly, 71.
  St. Ives' Fair, 76, 79.
  Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 273.
  Savoy Palace, 116.
  Saxon invasion, 8.
  Scattered strips, 38.
  Scotland, contest with, 24.
  Serfdom, 43, 120, 124.
  Serfdom, decay of, 129.
  _Servus_, 43.
  Sheep-raising, 142.
  Sheffield, 189, 284.
  Shop Hours Act, 260.
  Shrewsbury, 147.
  Skevin, 63.
  Sliding scale, 231.
  Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 272.
  Small holdings, 269.
  Smith, Adam, 224.
  Smithfield, 121.
  Social Democratic Federation, 311.
  Social gilds, 71, 158.
  Socialism, 310.
  Socialist League, 311.
  Sources, 54.
  Southampton, 61.
  South Sea Bubble, 195.
  Spain, 82, 168.
  Spencer, Henry de, 122.
  Spices, 84.
  Spinning, 205.
  Spinning-jenny, 207.
  Stade, 166.
  Staple, 87.
  Statute of Apprentices, 156, 228.
  Statutes of Laborers, 106.
  Steelyard, 92, 167.
  Sterling, 89.
  Steward, 40, 46.
  Stourbridge Fair, 76.
  Sturmys, 162.
  Sudbury, 116.
  Sweating, 260.


  Tallage, 44.
  Taverner, John, 162.
  Taxation, 194.
  Telegraph, government, 273.
  Telephone, government, 273.
  Telford, 215.
  Temple Bar, 116.
  Ten-hour Act, 256.
  Three-field system, 36.
  Tin, 3, 83, 88, 91, 93.
  Tolls, 57, 78, 82.
  Town government, 57.
  Towns, 57, 79, 154.
  Trade combinations, 294.
  Trade routes, 84.
  Trade unions, 279.
  Trades councils, 289.
  Transportation, 214.
  Trusts, 294.
  Turkey Company, 166.


  Ulster, Plantation of, 190.
  Usury, 171.
  Utopia, 145.


  Venice, 84.
  Venturers, 164.
  Vill, 31.
  Village community, 54.
  Villages, 31, 114.
  Villain, 40, 111, 125.
  Villainage, 130.
  _Villanus_, 43.
  Virgate, 38.
  Virginia Company, 190.
  _Vision of Piers Plowman_, 98, 111.

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