An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

Edward Potts Cheyney

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Release Date: June 1, 2007 [eBook #21660]
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Transcriber's note:
Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other
inconsistencies are as in the original. Author's spelling
has been maintained.
The following sentence has been changed:
from:
the spring crop was taken now it its turn would enjoy a
fallow year.
to:
the spring crop was taken now in its turn would enjoy
a fallow year.]
An Introduction to the
Industrial and Social
History of England
New Sixteenth Century Manor House with Fields still
Open, Gidea Hall, Essex.</span><br> Nichols:
<i>Progresses of Queen Elizabeth</i>.
New Sixteenth Century Manor House with Fields still
Open, Gidea Hall, Essex.
Nichols: Progresses of Queen Elizabeth.
An Introduction
to the
Industrial and Social
History
of England
BY
EDWARD P. CHEYNEY
PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN HISTORY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIANew York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1916
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1901,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1901.
Reprinted January, October, 1905; November, 1906;
October, 1907; July, 1908; February, 1909; January,
1910; April, December, 1910; January, August,
December, 1911; July, 1912; January, 1913;
February, August, 1914; January, November, 1915;
April, 1916.
PREFACE
This text-book is intended for college and high-school
classes. Most of the facts stated in it have become,
through the researches and publications of recent
years, such commonplace knowledge that a reference
to authority in each case has not seemed necessary.
Statements on more doubtful points, and such
personal opinions as I have had occasion to express,
although not supported by references, are based on a
somewhat careful study of the sources. To each
chapter is subjoined a bibliographical paragraph with
the titles of the most important secondary authorities.
These works will furnish a fuller account of the matters
that have been treated in outline in this book, indicate
the original sources, and give opportunity andsuggestions for further study. An introductory chapter
and a series of narrative paragraphs prefixed to other
chapters are given with the object of correlating
matters of economic and social history with other
aspects of the life of the nation.
My obligation and gratitude are due, as are those of all
later students, to the group of scholars who have
within our own time laid the foundations of the study of
economic history, and whose names and books will be
found referred to in the bibliographical paragraphs.
EDWARD P. CHEYNEY.
University of Pennsylvania,
January, 1901.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
Growth of the Nation To the Middle of the Fourteenth
Century
The Geography of England
Prehistoric Britain
Roman Britain
Early Saxon England
Danish and Late Saxon England
The Period following the Norman Conquest
The Period of the Early Angevin Kings, 1154-1338
CHAPTER II
Rural Life and OrganizationThe Mediæval Village
The Vill as an Agricultural System
Classes of People on the Manor
The Manor Courts
The Manor as an Estate of a Lord
Bibliography
CHAPTER III
Town Life and Organization
The Town Government
The Gild Merchant
The Craft Gilds
Non-industrial Gilds
Bibliography
CHAPTER IV
Mediæval Trade and Commerce
Markets and Fairs
Trade Relations between Towns
Foreign Trading Relations
The Italian and Eastern Trade
The Flanders Trade and the Staple
The Hanse Trade
Foreigners settled in England
Bibliography
CHAPTER V
The Black Death and the Peasants' Rebellion
Economic Changes of the Later Fourteenth and EarlyFifteenth Centuries
National Affairs from 1338 to 1461
The Black Death and its Effects
The Statutes of Laborers
The Peasants' Rebellion of 1381
Commutation of Services
The Abandonment of Demesne Farming
The Decay of Serfdom
Changes in Town Life and Foreign Trade
Bibliography
CHAPTER VI
The Breaking up of the Mediæval System
Economic Changes of the Later Fifteenth and the
Sixteenth Centuries
National Affairs from 1461 to 1603
Enclosures
Internal Divisions in the Craft Gilds
Change of Location of Industries
The Influence of the Government on the Gilds
General Causes and Evidences of the Decay of
the Gilds
The Growth of Native Commerce
The Merchants Adventurers
Government Encouragement of Commerce
The Currency
Interest
Paternal Government
Bibliography
CHAPTER VIIThe Expansion of England
Economic Changes of the Seventeenth and Early
Eighteenth Centuries
National Affairs from 1603 to 1760
The Extension of Agriculture
The Domestic System of Manufactures
Commerce under the Navigation Acts
Finance
Bibliography
CHAPTER VIII
The Period of the Industrial Revolution
Economic Changes of the Later Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries
National Affairs from 1760 to 1830
The Great Mechanical Inventions
The Factory System
Iron, Coal, and Transportation
The Revival of Enclosures
Decay of Domestic Manufacture
The Laissez-faire Theory
Cessation of Government Regulation
Individualism
Social Conditions at the Beginning of the
Nineteenth Century
Bibliography
CHAPTER IXThe Extension of Government Control
Factory Laws, the Modification of Land Ownership,
Sanitary Regulations, and New Public Services
National Affairs from 1830 to 1900
The Beginning of Factory Legislation
Arguments for and against Factory Legislation
Factory Legislation to 1847
The Extension of Factory Legislation
Employers' Liability Acts
Preservation of Remaining Open Lands
Allotments
Small Holdings
Government Sanitary Control
Industries Carried on by Government
Bibliography
CHAPTER X
The Extension of Voluntary Association
Trade Unions, Trusts, and Coöperation
The Rise of Trade Unions
Opposition of the Law and of Public Opinion. The
Combination Acts
Legalization and Popular Acceptance of Trade
Unions
The Growth of Trade Unions
Federation of Trade Unions
Employers' Organizations
Trusts and Trade Combinations
Coöperation in Distribution
Coöperation in Production