1. Proposals for the Regulation of the Cloth Manufacture (_temp_ Henry VIII)--2. Administrative Difficulties in the Regulation of the Manufacture of Cloth, 1537--3. An Act Touching Weavers, 1555--4. Enactment of Common Council of London as to Age of Ending Apprenticeship, 1556--5. William Cecil's Industrial Programme, 1559--6. The Statute of Artificers, 1563--7. Proposals for the Better Administration of the Statute of Artificers, 1572--8. Draft of a Bill Fixing Minimum Rates for Spinners and Weavers, 1593--9. Draft Piece-list Submitted for Ratification to the Wiltshire Justices by Clothiers and Weavers, 1602--10. An Act Empowering Justices to fix Minimum Rates of Payment, 1603-04--11. Administration of Acts Regulating the Manufacture of Cloth, 1603--12. Assessment made by the Justices of Wiltshire, dealing mainly with other than Textile Workers, 1604--13. Assessment made by the Justices of Wiltshire dealing mainly with Textile Workers, 1605--14. Administration of Wage Clauses of Statute of Artificers, 1605-08--15. Administration of Apprenticeship Clause of the Statute of Artificers, 1607-08--16. The Organisation of the Woollen Industry, 1615--17. Proceedings on the Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1615--18. A Petition to Fix Wages Addressed to the Justices by the Textile Workers of Wiltshire, 1623--19. Appointment by Privy Council of Commissioners to Investigate Grievances of Textile Workers in East Anglia, 1630--20. Report to Privy Council of Commissioners appointed above, 1630--21. High Wages in the New World, 1645--22. Young Men and Maids Ordered to Enter Service, 1655--23. Request to Justices of Grand Jury of Worcestershire to Assess Wages, 1661--24. Proceedings on the Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1669. The documents in this section illustrate the regulation of industrial relationships by the government of the Tudors and of the first two Stuarts. The principal aims of their policy were to check the movement of the textile industries from the town to country districts (Nos. 3 and 6), to prevent the concentration of industry in the hands of capitalists (Nos. 3 and 11), or the creation of a necessitous proletariat (No. 4), to exercise a police supervision over the movement of labour (Nos. 6, 7 and 14), to maintain the quality of English goods (No. 2), to prevent class encroaching on class (Nos. 5 and 6) either through the wage earner demanding excessive wages (No. 5) or through the employer beating them down unduly (Nos. 8, 10, 19, 20), in short to crystallize existing relationships with such changes only as the economic developments of recent years, particularly the fall in the value of money (No. 6), and the spread of the textile industries into rural districts (No. 3) made inevitable.