English Economic History: Select Documents. Various

REGULATION OF INDUSTRY BY THE STATE

1.	Proposals for the Regulation of the Cloth Manufacture (temp. Henry VIII)	317
2.	Administrative Difficulties in the Regulation of the Manufacture of Cloth, 1537	319
3.	An Act Touching Weavers, 1555	320
4.	Enactment of Common Council of London as to Age of Ending Apprenticeship, 1556	323
5.	William Cecil's Industrial Programme, 1559	323
6.	The Statute of Artificers, 1563	325
7.	Proposals for the Better Administration of the Statute of Artificers, 1572	333
8.	Draft of a Bill Fixing Minimum Rates for Spinners and Weavers, 1593	336
9.	Draft Piece-list Submitted for Ratification to the Wiltshire Justices by Clothiers and Weavers, 1602	341
10.	An Act empowering Justices to fix Minimum Rates of Payment, 1603–04	342
11.	Administration of Acts Regulating the Manufacture of Cloth, 1603	344
12.	Assessment made by the Justices of Wiltshire, dealing mainly with other than Textile Workers, 1604	345
13.	Assessment made by the Justices of Wiltshire, dealing mainly with Textile Workers, 1605	351
14.	Administration of Wage Clauses of Statute of Artificers, 1605–08	352
15.	Administration of Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1607–08	353
16.	The Organisation of the Woollen Industry, 1615	354
17.	Proceedings on the Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1615	356
18.	A Petition to Fix Wages Addressed to the Justices by the Textile Workers of Wiltshire, 1623	356
19.	Appointment by Privy Council of Commissioners to Investigate Grievances of Textile Workers in East Anglia, 1630	357
20.	Report to Privy Council of Commissioners appointed above, 1630	358
21.	High Wages in the New World, 1645	360
22.	Young Men and Maids ordered to enter Service, 1655	360
23.	Request to Justices of Grand Jury of Worcestershire to assess Wages, 1661	361
24.	Proceedings on the Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1669	361

      SECTION IV

       THE RELIEF OF THE POOR AND THE REGULATION OF PRICES

1.	Regulations made at Chester as to Beggars, 1539	366
2.	A Proclamation concerning Corn and Grain to be brought into open Markets to be sold, 1545	367
3.	Administration of Poor Relief at Norwich, 1571	369
4.	The first Act Directing the Levy of a Compulsory Poor Rate, 1572	372
5.	The first Act requiring the Unemployed to be set to Work, 1575–6	373
6.	Report of Justices to Council Concerning Scarcity in Norfolk, 1586	373
7.	Orders devised by the Special Commandment of the Queen's Majesty for the Relief and Ease of the Present Dearth of Grain within the Realm, 1586	374
8.	The Poor Law Act, 1601	380
9.	A note of the Grievances of the Parish of Eldersfield, 1618	381
10.	Petition to Justices of Wiltshire for Permission to Settle in a Parish, 1618 Скачать книгу В начало < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > В конец