43 Elizabeth, touching poor relief, 364, 380, 662;
1 James I., ditto, 343, 557, 656;
21 James I., touching depopulation, 229;
21 James I., touching monopolies, 465;
12 Charles II., Navigation Act, 670;
14 Charles II., Settlement Act, 647;
7 George I., touching combinations, 624;
9 George I., touching workhouses, 650;
12 George I., touching truck, 546;
7 George III., touching poor relief, 663;
13 George III., Spitalfields Act, 547;
39 George III., touching combinations, 626;
26 George III., touching Sinking Fund, 679;
39 and 40 George III., touching industrial arbitration, 568, 570, 576;
39 and 40 George III., touching combinations, 618, 627, 633;
41 George III., touching enclosures, 537;
42 George III., touching factories, 504;
44 George III., touching industrial arbitration, 570, 576;
54 George I I., touching apprenticeship, 588;
55 George III., Corn Law, 697;
59 George III., Factory Act, 591;
3 and 4 William IV., ditto, 594;
4 and 5 William IV., Poor Law Amendment Act, 663;
7 and 8 Victoria, Factory Act, 612;
do., Bank Charter Act, 702;
8 and 9 Victoria, General Enclosure Act, 541

Statute Law Revision Act (1863), 229

Steam power, use of, 544

Steelyard, the, 416, 417, 418, 440

Stock and land leases, 79, 81n., 245, 246

Stocks, punishment of, 172, 329, 366

Stafford, policy of, in Ireland, 399, 470-472

Strikers, prosecuted under law of conspiracy, 635

Strikes, 196, 617, 618, 619-622, 631-633, 635
(see also Combinations, Labour disputes)

Stuarts, the, fiscal methods of, 399
(see also Patents)


Tailors, journeymen, combination of, 617, 622-624

Tariff war, with Netherlands, 399

Taxation, 203-216, 667; aids, 29;
carucage, 21, 32;
do., fines for evasion of, 32, 33;
geld, 12, 15, 16;
Parliamentary subsidies, 406, 468;
tonnage and poundage, 206;
Parliamentary tenths and fifteenths, 170, 171;
do., assessment of, 204, 205;
scutage (see Scutage);
tallage, 27, 65, 80, 82, 93, 117, 127;
do., assessment of, in London, 35;
do., assessed on Jews, 46;
Pitt on incidence of, 686 (see also Income Tax);
Walpole on incidence of, 679

Taxes, the Assessed, 684

Tenures of land (see Burgage, Copyhold, Customary tenure, Feudal, Freehold, Leasehold, Villeinage)

Testimonials or certificates of service, 172, 174, 175, 324, 327, 334-336, 353

Theam, 125

Tin, internal trade in, patent for, 442

Tithes, 249, 288, 289, 380, 528

Tolls (see Boroughs, Fairs, Lastage, Markets, Murage, Passage, Pavage, Pesage, Stallage)

Towns (see Boroughs)

Trade, Internal, combinations in restraint of, 108, 128-130 (see also Craft-gilds, Gilds Merchant, Trade Unions);
intermunicipal, 112, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 133, 134, 152, 280, 282;
municipal regulation of, 280, 282, 283, 294-299;
state regulation of, 152, 153, 160-178;
restrictions on, by a lord, 133;
of aliens in England, 127

Trade, Colonial, effect of Navigation Act on, 672-674

Trade, Foreign, 152, 698-701;
condition of, in 1587, 438-440;
do., in 19th century, 689-692;
depression of, 364, 383;
encouragement of export and checking of import, 398, 399, 407-416, 424, 425, 426, 431-434, 439, 440, 454-461;
export of dressed cloth, 398, 399, 402-404, 426, 454-461, 469;
export of undressed cloth, 398, 399, 402-404, 424, 426, 454, 459;
fluctuations of, 610;
fostering of, 397, 398;
instructions to a factor in Turkey, 431-434;
perils of, 181, 188-192;
protection of, 153, 187;
relative merits of exports and imports discussed, 413, 421-425;
with Africa, 691;
with the Baltic, 691;
with Canada, 690;
with Continent, 502, 690;
with East Indies, 452;
with Flanders, 413;
with France, 413;
with Italy, 413;
with Levant, 452, 691;
with Low Countries, 179;
with Portugal, 690, 691;
with Russia, 449, 450, 452;
with South America, 690, 691;
with Spain, 413, 690;
with United States, 502, 689, 690, 691;
with West Indies, 690

Trade, Board of, 597

Trade boards, local, advocated, 596, 597

Trade Unions, 281, 617, 618;
benefit clubs of, 618, 626;
funds of, 629, 637
(see also Combinations, Journeymen, Labour disputes)

Trial by battle, 119, 123

Trial by jury, 123

Truck, 284, 318, 513;
acts against, 318, 544, 545

Tumbrel, 156

Turkey Company, 431, 450


Unemployment, 364, 366, 369-373, 383, 390, 398, 573, 611

Unions of parishes for relief of poor, 651, 664, 665

Universities, 287, 287n.

Usury, 44, 45, 49, 51, 154;
London ordinance touching, 200;
petition in Chancery touching, 201;
petition in Parliament touching, 200

Utopia, Sir Thomas More's, 275


Vagrants, 323, 335, 366, 369, 378, 379, 384, 388, 647, 648, 654
(see also Beggars, Bridewells, Houses of Correction, Labourers, Ordinance of, Poor, Workhouses)

Village greens, excluded from enclosure act, 541

Villeins, bondmen, 9, 16, 17, 32, 36, 54, 55, 69, 71-75, 90-102, 165, 231, 249;
actions brought by, 55;
flight of, 55;
grant of, 55, 98;
imprisonment of, 99, 100, 101;
licensed to leave a manor, 72, 75;
manumission of, 55, 97;
received in boroughs, 121, 125;
regardant, 101;
runaway, 69, 73, 74, 75, 125

Villeinage (status), 75, 228;
acknowledgment of, 93, 94;
cases before the Courts touching, 88-90, 92-97;
survival of, in sixteenth century, 228, 231

Villeinage (tenure), bondage land, 24, 32, 54, 55, 66, 67, 68, 69, 84, 86, 235, 239, 248;