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This eight-piece compilation (1866-1902) documents the fluctuating prices of agricultural produce in England between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries.

This eight-piece compilation (1866-1902) documents the fluctuating prices of agricultural produce in England between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries.

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), 1703-1793, Part II Vol. Iii. Pp. 76 - 114. 2 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 Thi...

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Excerpt from Historical Gleanings: A Series of Sketches, Montagu, Walpole, Adam Smith, CobbettI can lay claim to no higher merit than that of diligent collection. I cannot assume that I have made the subjects which I am treating in the follow ing pages as clear to my reader as they are to myself. But I am persuaded that the writer who possesses the gift of historical exposition, might follow the method pursued in these sketches with advantage,...

Excerpt from The British Citizen, His Rights and Privileges: A Short History It is my purpose in this little work to point out to my readers how it has been that the modern Englishman has, in the course of ages, attained his present place as a citizen, with the rights and privileges which belong to that condition. The story is not a continuous one, for the Englishman has occupied at different periods a position of very different strength or s...

Excerpt from Economic Interpretation of History Two things have discredited political economy-the one is its traditional disregard for facts the other, its strangling itself with definitions. The economist has borrowed his terms from common life. New, unless the words one uses are strictly limited in mean ing, as those are which express geometrical forms or chemical compounds, no word, and for the matter of that no definition of the word, ord...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 4: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793)The material progress of England was for a time ao companied by great advances in political liberty and by the noble energy of the Commons in Parliament. The action of the House of Commons in the first half of the fifteenth century supplied the precedents on which the liberties o...

Excerpt from First Nine Years of the Bank of England: An Enquiry Into a Weekly Record of the Price of Bank Stock From August 17, 1694, to September 17, 1703 The most necessary materials for illustrating the facts are the Journals of the two Houses and the Statute-book for the period. 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...

Excerpt from The Story of Holland The story which is contained in the following pages is, Of necessity, brief, for I cannot go beyond the limits Of the series. But it need not be given in great detail. It is possible by a short narrative to recount the prin cipal facts in the greatest and most important Of all European wars, that in which the seven provinces Of Holland secured their independence against the monarch who was supposed to possess...

Excerpt from Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English Labour Since I published, nearly eighteen years ago, the first two volumes of my history of agriculture and prices, I have been frequently urged to extract and exhibit those parts of my researches which illustrate the history of labour and wages. To have done this to any purpose, it was necessary that I should have in my possession such a continuous record of wages actually ...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records There is no need of any apology in offering the facts in these volumes to such persons as are interested in the social history of the southern part of our island. They are an attempt to satisfy a total void - the comp...