The Foundations of Society and the Land: A Review of the Social Systems of the Middle Ages in Britain, Their Growth and Their Decay: with a Special Reference to Land User, Supplemented by Some Observations on the Connection with Modern Conditions |
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... Causes CHAPTER XXXI . THE RUIN OF IRELAND • Ireland's Prosperity in the Thirteenth Century , 387 . The Causes of its Rapid Decay , 388. The Successive Famines , 390. Testimonies to the Capacity of the Soil and to Irish Industry , 392 ...
... Causes CHAPTER XXXI . THE RUIN OF IRELAND • Ireland's Prosperity in the Thirteenth Century , 387 . The Causes of its Rapid Decay , 388. The Successive Famines , 390. Testimonies to the Capacity of the Soil and to Irish Industry , 392 ...
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... Causes CHAPTER XXXV . THE CHIEF INFLUENCES OF CHANGE . THE INTERFERENCE OF POLITICS The Effect of Increase of Population , 449. Leases , 450 . The Competition Rent , 452. Other Causes of Change , 453 . Ireland and Economic Causes , 456 ...
... Causes CHAPTER XXXV . THE CHIEF INFLUENCES OF CHANGE . THE INTERFERENCE OF POLITICS The Effect of Increase of Population , 449. Leases , 450 . The Competition Rent , 452. Other Causes of Change , 453 . Ireland and Economic Causes , 456 ...
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... cause of Ireland's prominence is this . Ireland is a chief authority for early communal conditions , and I believe the neglect of its records to have led to a great deal of wrong historical perspective . In its later history it is a ...
... cause of Ireland's prominence is this . Ireland is a chief authority for early communal conditions , and I believe the neglect of its records to have led to a great deal of wrong historical perspective . In its later history it is a ...
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... cause of the change of the social system , but there are two other most prominent influences which should figure freely in this book , but which are hardly touched on . One is the influence on the social life of the Christian Church of ...
... cause of the change of the social system , but there are two other most prominent influences which should figure freely in this book , but which are hardly touched on . One is the influence on the social life of the Christian Church of ...
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... cause there is , unmentioned by the monk of St Albans or Newburgh or Peterboro ' , which may uncon- sciously have been felt by the Norman baron as cause for holding to the connection - the advantages to be gained for commerce . The ...
... cause there is , unmentioned by the monk of St Albans or Newburgh or Peterboro ' , which may uncon- sciously have been felt by the Norman baron as cause for holding to the connection - the advantages to be gained for commerce . The ...
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Page 423 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 11 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and...
Page 390 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 423 - Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty. And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty ; — Seb.
Page 404 - Wherein it is a great wonder to see the odds which is between the zeal of popish priests and the ministers of the Gospel. For they spare not to come out of Spain, from Rome, and from Rheims, by long toil and dangerous travelling, hither, where they know peril of death awaiteth them, and no reward or riches is to be found, only to draw the people into the Church of Rome.
Page 423 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 422 - A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
Page 253 - ... by your High Court of Parliament. They make " us believe, that by virtue of your Highness all our former " writings are void, and of no effect : and that if we will " not take new leases of them, we must then forthwith " avoid the grounds, as having therein no interest.
Page 390 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 275 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had...