English Economic History: Select Documents. Various
REGULATION OF INDUSTRY BY THE STATE
| 1. | Proposals for the Regulation of the Cloth Manufacture (temp. Henry VIII) | 317 |
| 2. | Administrative Difficulties in the Regulation of the Manufacture of Cloth, 1537 | 319 |
| 3. | An Act Touching Weavers, 1555 | 320 |
| 4. | Enactment of Common Council of London as to Age of Ending Apprenticeship, 1556 | 323 |
| 5. | William Cecil's Industrial Programme, 1559 | 323 |
| 6. | The Statute of Artificers, 1563 | 325 |
| 7. | Proposals for the Better Administration of the Statute of Artificers, 1572 | 333 |
| 8. | Draft of a Bill Fixing Minimum Rates for Spinners and Weavers, 1593 | 336 |
| 9. | Draft Piece-list Submitted for Ratification to the Wiltshire Justices by Clothiers and Weavers, 1602 | 341 |
| 10. | An Act empowering Justices to fix Minimum Rates of Payment, 1603–04 | 342 |
| 11. | Administration of Acts Regulating the Manufacture of Cloth, 1603 | 344 |
| 12. | Assessment made by the Justices of Wiltshire, dealing mainly with other than Textile Workers, 1604 | 345 |
| 13. | Assessment made by the Justices of Wiltshire, dealing mainly with Textile Workers, 1605 | 351 |
| 14. | Administration of Wage Clauses of Statute of Artificers, 1605–08 | 352 |
| 15. | Administration of Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1607–08 | 353 |
| 16. | The Organisation of the Woollen Industry, 1615 | 354 |
| 17. | Proceedings on the Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1615 | 356 |
| 18. | A Petition to Fix Wages Addressed to the Justices by the Textile Workers of Wiltshire, 1623 | 356 |
| 19. | Appointment by Privy Council of Commissioners to Investigate Grievances of Textile Workers in East Anglia, 1630 | 357 |
| 20. | Report to Privy Council of Commissioners appointed above, 1630 | 358 |
| 21. | High Wages in the New World, 1645 | 360 |
| 22. | Young Men and Maids ordered to enter Service, 1655 | 360 |
| 23. | Request to Justices of Grand Jury of Worcestershire to assess Wages, 1661 | 361 |
| 24. | Proceedings on the Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers, 1669 | 361 |
SECTION IV
THE RELIEF OF THE POOR AND THE REGULATION OF PRICES
| 1. | Regulations made at Chester as to Beggars, 1539 | 366 |
| 2. | A Proclamation concerning Corn and Grain to be brought into open Markets to be sold, 1545 | 367 |
| 3. | Administration of Poor Relief at Norwich, 1571 | 369 |
| 4. | The first Act Directing the Levy of a Compulsory Poor Rate, 1572 | 372 |
| 5. | The first Act requiring the Unemployed to be set to Work, 1575–6 | 373 |
| 6. | Report of Justices to Council Concerning Scarcity in Norfolk, 1586 | 373 |
| 7. | Orders devised by the Special Commandment of the Queen's Majesty for the Relief and Ease of the Present Dearth of Grain within the Realm, 1586 | 374 |
| 8. | The Poor Law Act, 1601 | 380 |
| 9. | A note of the Grievances of the Parish of Eldersfield, 1618 | 381 |
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Petition to Justices of Wiltshire for Permission to Settle in a Parish, 1618
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