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An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
New Sixteenth Century Manor House with Fields stillOpen, Gidea Hall, Essex.
Nichols: Progresses of Queen Elizabeth.
An Introduction
to the
Industrial and Social History
of England
BY
EDWARD P. CHEYNEY
PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1916
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1901,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1901. Reprinted January,October, 1905; November, 1906; October, 1907; July, 1908; February,1909; January, 1910; April, December, 1910; January, August, December,1911; July, 1912; January, 1913; February, August, 1914; January,November, 1915; April, 1916.
PREFACE (p. v)
This text-book is intended for college and high-school classes. Mostof the facts stated in it have become, through the researches andpublications of recent years, such commonplace knowledge that areference to authority in each case has not seemed necessary.Statements on more doubtful points, and such personal opinions as Ihave had occasion to express, although not supported by references,are based on a somewhat careful study of the sources. To each chapteris subjoined a bibliographical paragraph with the titles of the mostimportant secondary authorities. These works will furnish a fulleraccount of the matters that have been treated in outline in this book,indicate the original sources, and give opportunity and suggestionsfor further study. An introductory chapter and a series of narrativeparagraphs prefixed to other chapters are given with the object ofcorrelating matters of economic and social history with other aspectsof the life of the nation.
My obligation and gratitude are due, as are those of all laterstudents, to the group of scholars who have within our own time laidthe foundations of the study of economic history, and whose names andbooks will be found referred to in the bibliographical paragraphs.
EDWARD P. CHEYNEY.
University of Pennsylvania,
January, 1901.
CONTENTS (p. vii)
CHAPTER I