Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
The more accessible of the modern writers dealing with agrarian
conditions from 1485-1660 are:--Cunningham, _English Industry and
Commerce, Early and Middle Ages_, and _ibid._, _Modern Times_, Part
I; Ashley, _Economic History_, Vol. I, Part II; Nasse, _The Land
Community of the Middle Ages_; Gonner, _Common Land and Inclosure_;
Page, _The End of Villeinage in England_; Hasbach, _The English
Agricultural Labourer_; Prothero, _Pioneers and Progress of English
Agriculture_, and _A History of English Farming_; Johnson, _The
Disappearance of the Small Landowner_; Tawney, _The Agrarian Problem
in the Sixteenth Century_; Russell, _Ket's Rebellion in Norfolk_;
Leadam, _The Domesday of Inclosures_, and in Trans. R.H.S. New
Series, Vol. VI; Gay, in Trans. R.H.S., New Series, Vols. XIV and
XVIII, and in _The Quarterly Journal of Economics_, Vol. XVIII;
Leonard, Trans. R.H.S., New Series, Vol. XIX; Savine in _The
Quarterly Journal of Economics_, Vol. XIX. A useful summary of the
principle Statutes against Depopulation is given by Slater, _The
English Peasantry and the Enclosure of the Common Fields_, App. D.
Full bibliographies of this subject are given in _Two Select
Bibliographies of Mediæval Historical Study_, by Margaret E. Moore,
and in _A Classified List of Printed Original Materials for English
Manorial and Agrarian History_, by Francis G. Davenport. The
following list of sources does not pretend to be exhaustive.
(1) Documents relating to agrarian history are printed in the
following works:--Northumberland County History; Baigent, Crondal
Records; Surveys of Lands belonging to William, first Earl of
Pembroke (Roxburghe Club); Topographer and Genealogist, Vol. I,
Surveys of Manors Belonging to the Duke of Devonshire; Chetham
Society, Survey of the Manor of Rochdale (ed. by Fishwick);
Davenport, History of a Norfolk Manor; Scrope, History of the Manor
and Barony of Castle Combe; Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials; Selden
Society, Select Cases in the Court of Star Chamber and Select Cases
in the Court of Requests (both edited by Leadam); Leadam, The
Domesday of Enclosures; Tawney, The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth
Century, App. I; Cunningham English Industry and Commerce, Modern
Times, Vol. I, App. B.
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