Preface. 4 Chapter 1. Introduction. . 15 Chapter II. Rural England — Social Life. 36 Chapter III. Rural England — Agriculture. . 68 Chapter IV. Town Life. . 101 Chapter V. The Distribution of Wealth and Trade. 127 Chapter VI. Society — Wages — Profits. . 158 Chapter VII. The King and His Extraordinary Revenues. 187 Chapter VIII. The Famine and the Plague. 214 Chapter IX. Discontent — Combination — Insurrection. . 242 Chapter X. The Landlord′s Remedies. . 273 Chapter XI. The Development of Taxation. 299 Chapter XII. Labour and Wages. 325 Chapter XIII. The Clergy till the Reformation. . 355 Chapter XIV. Wages of Labour after the Rise in Prices. 386 Chapter XV. The English Poor Law. 413 Chapter XVI. English Husbandry from the Rise in Prices. . 441 Chapter XVII. Agriculture and Agricultural Wages in the Eighteenth Century. 467 Chapter XVIII. Wages in the Nineteenth Century. 493 Chapter XIX. The Present Situation. . 520 Chapter XX. Remedies. . 547