A Short History of English Commerce and Industry

Adam Smith afterwards agricultural apprentices arable Black Death bullionists burgesses caused chapter cloth coin colonial commercial common Company convertible husbandry corn Corn Laws craftsmen customs demesne districts domestic system duties earlier economic history Edward III eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan England English export fact factory system favoured fifteenth followed foreign France Free Trade fresh gold greater growth Henry Henry VIII historian important inclosures increase influence interests journeymen King labour land later least less lord machinery Malthus manor manorial system manufacture ment Mercantile System merchant gild monopoly motive-power Navigation Act Norman Conquest passed pasture payment period political possessed practice privileges provisions recoinage regulation restrictions revenue Ricardo Roman Saxon secure seems seventeenth century shillings silver sixteenth century sought Statute Statutes of Labourers success supplied tenants tillage tion towns village villeins wages Wealth of Nations weavers wool woollen industry