(see also Coal Industry)

Mining Company, incorporation of, 427

Mint, 220, 417;
coinage of money at, before 1696, 677, 678;
free coinage of bullion at, 674;
profits of, 221, 222, 406
(see also Moneyers)

Monasteries, effect of dissolution of, 229, 251

Money, fall in value of, 314, 398, 405, 406;
regulation of export and import of, 216-223

Moneyers, 12, 13, 119

Monopoly and monopolies, 480, 497, 584, 587, 611 (see also Patents);
of craft and merchant gilds, 112;
of mercantile companies, 443-453

Murage, 126, 127, 212, 282

Muscovy or Russia Merchants, 399, 449, 450, 452, 453


Navigation Act (1660), 670;
attack on, 672-674

Newcastle Coal Vend, 497

Norman Conquest, the, 3, 4, 53, 54, 55, 90;
effects of, on boroughs, 10-14;
do., on rural population, 54, 55

North-West Passage, 436


Oastler, Richard, campaign of, against child labour, 544, 592-594

Orders in Council, effect of, on British industry and trade, 480, 501, 691

Outdoor relief, condemned by Poor Law Commission (1834), 662;
prohibitory order as to, 665


Pannage, 58, 61, 243, 259

Parish, as a unit for poor relief, 372, 379, 380, 647;
overseers (see Poor)

Parliament, 20, 103, 180, 206, 217, 229, 261, 537;
and minimum wages, 316;
petitions to, 553;
regulation of trade and industry by, 153, 160-163, 171-178
(see also House of Commons)

Passage, 122, 124

Pasture, reconversion of, to arable, 271-273, 275, 276