A History Of Agriculture And Prices In England 1583 1702

Author : James Edwin Thorold Rogers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265865323
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 5 written by James Edwin Thorold Rogers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.