Economic History of England: A Study in Social Development

Adam Smith agricultural Bank of England became Black Death bullion capital capitalist cloth coins common competition Conquest considerable course crafts craftsmen Crown currency custom demand demesne districts duties economic Edward III effect eighteenth century employers employment English enterprise evidence evil exchange existed expenditure export fact factory favour fifteenth finance foreign gild merchant gold gradually growth hand Henry VIII important improvement income increase individual Industrial Revolution interest issue labour land legislation less London lord machinery manor manorial system manufacturing ment modern monopoly movement municipal organisation Parliament period political Poor Law population practice probably production raw materials reduced regulation reign restriction result secure seems sixteenth century social specialised standard statute Statute of Artificers supply taxation tenants tendency thirteenth century tion towns trade union wage-earners wages whilst wool workers