19), who compelled the employers to raise wages (No. 20). The policy of fixing _minimum_ rates seems to have come to an end with the fall of the absolute monarchy in 1640, though it was occasionally revived by Parliament in the sixteenth century. (Part III, section III, Nos. 3, 4 and 15). AUTHORITIES The more accessible of the modern writers dealing with the subject of this section are:--Cunningham, _English Industry and Commerce, Modern Times_, Part I; Ashley, _Economic History_, Vol. I, Part II, Chap, iii; Unwin, _Industrial Organisation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries_; Abram, _Social England in the Fifteenth Century_; Dunlop and Denman, _English Apprenticeship and Child Labour_; Rogers, _Six Centuries of Work and Wages_; Hewins, _English Trade and Finance in the Seventeenth Century_; Schanz, _Englische Handelspolitik Gegen Ende des Mittelalters_; Tawney in _Die Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte_, Band XI and XII, Heft 8 and 9; Macarthur, in E.H.R., Vols. IX, XIII and XV; Hewins in _Economic Journal_, Vol. VIII; Hutchins, _ibid._, Vol. X. Bibliographies are given by Cunningham, _op. cit._, pp. 943-998; Unwin, _op. cit._, pp. 263-270; Ashley, _op. cit._, pp. 190-1, 243-8; Abram, _op. cit._, pp. 229-238; Dunlop & Denman, _op. cit._, pp. 355-63; the student may also consult the following:-- (1) _Documentary authorities_, 1485-1660:--The most important printed sources of information for the administration of the industrial legislation of the 16th century are Town Records (see bibliographies, especially those of Unwin and of Dunlop & Denman), and the Proceedings of the County Justices contained in the following works:--Hamilton, Devonshire Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne; Atkinson, Quarter Session Records of the North Riding of Yorkshire; Willis Bund, Worcester County Records, division I; Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals; Hardy, Hertford Quarter Session Records; Hardy & Page, Bedfordshire County Quarter Sessions; volumes published by the Historical MSS. Commission, especially Vol. I; Victoria County History, _passim_.