A History Of Agriculture And Prices In England From The Year After The Oxford Parliament 1259 To The Commencement Of The Continental War 1793 Compiled Entirely From Original And Contemporaneous Records

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 5: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793); Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records; 1583-1702 A third important fact in the economical history of this period is the rapid growth of population, despite the singular severity with which plagues of various kinds - the old plague of r 348, small-pox, and typhus or spotted fever - ravaged the towns. This increase was partly due to immigration from the Netherlands and France, partly to the growth of domestic industries, especially cloth-weaving, but most of all to the settle ment and occupation of the counties north of the Trent. At the time of the Revolution, as we can see from the returns of the Hearth Tax, the northern counties were nearly as fully peopled as the southern, certain differ ences of soil and climate being taken into account. These counties were especially, though not wholly, the seats of the new manufactures. In the seventeenth century, too, other manufactures than those of textile fabrics made considerable progress. Paper, glass and iron were increasingly produced in England, apparently of excellent quality, and chiefly in the South of England paper in Kent, glass and iron in Sussex. It is to this century jalso that the art of smelting iron by pit-cod is assigned. There is evidence that this process was known a century before, but it may well have been improved by Dud Dudley, its reputed inventor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 7: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament, 1259, to the Commencement of the Continental War, 1793; Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records; Part I, 1708-1793 AS it has been decided to bring the Histom (y Agriculture and Prices to an end with the seventh volume, which is now laid before the public, some apology for the incomplete condition of the work is necessary, as well as an explanation of the great delay which has occurred in printing these pages. The fifth and sixth volumes were published in 1887, and during the last three years of his life my father was busily en gaged in collecting material for the concluding part of his book. A large number of figures had been brought together, and even tabulated, when he was seized with the illness that ultimately proved fatal to him. But the series was incomplete, and though prices had been collected for several articles for every year in the period he had set himself to deal with, many subjects were but poorly represented. Among the papers that were left, no clue was found to the existence of any other figures, or to the sources from which he had proposed to draw further information. My father invariably worked alone, with out assistance or delegation, and there was no one therefore who was in a position to offer any valuable opinion on the intended scope of the work. When therefore the Delegates of the University Press kindly agreed to allow me to edit the manuscript my father left behind him, two courses were open to me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 2: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records; 1259-1400 Queen's College has afforded only one set of farming accounts, those, namely, of God's House in Southampton, the bedesmen and sisters of which possessed the manor of Gussage in Dorset. The fullest of these Southampton accounts long precede the foundation of Queen's College, and belong to a time when God's House was an inde pendent corporation. New College has supplied information for the later portion of this inquiry. The archives of this society are in the very best condition, but, with one exception, give no evidence before the reign of Richard the Second. The exception is the manor of Heyford Warren in Oxfordshire. This estate was purchased by Wykeham from the Lisles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 7: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records; 1703-1793, Part II Vol. Iii. Pp. 76-114. Unless the company called King George's Salt is the same as the good ship called Royal George. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.