Index:Landholding in England.djvu

Title Landholding in England
Author Mary A. M. Marks
Year 1908
Publisher A.C. Fifield
Location London
Source djvu
Progress Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion Fully transcluded
CONTENTS

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PREFACE 6
CHAPTER
I. IN SAXON TIMES 7
II. UNDER THE NORMANS 15
III. THE THREE STATUTES OF EDWARD I. 22
IV. THE BLACK DEATH 30
V. PRIMOGENITURE 40
VI. THE RISE OF THE CHANCERY 44
VII. ENGLAND BEFORE THE SUPPRESSION 50
VIII. THE GROWTH OF THE POWER OF THE CROWN 54
IX. HENRY VIII.'S STATUTE OF USES 59
X. THE TAKING OF THE ABBEY LANDS 62
XI. THE TESTIMONY OF THE REFORMERS 71
XII. THE STATUTE OF VAGABONDS 80
XIII. THE REBELLIONS OF THE POOR COMMONS 87
XIV. THE DEGRADATION OF THE POOR 95
XV. THE LEVELLERS 105
XVI. THE DIGGERS 113
XVII. THE END OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM 119
XVIII. THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES  123
XIX. ENCLOSURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 130
XX. ENCLOSURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 147
XXI. THE WORKING OF ENTAIL 154
XXII. LEASEHOLD versus FREEHOLD 167
XXIII. CONCLUSION 184