English Economic History: Select Documents. Various

382 11. Letter from Privy Council to Justices of Cloth-making Counties, 1621–2 382 12. Letter from Privy Council to the Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex concerning the Employment of the Poor, 1629 383 13. The Licensing of Badgers in Somersetshire, 1630 385 14. Badgers Licensed at Somersetshire Quarter Sessions, 1630 385 15. The Supplying of Bristol with Grain, 1630–1 385 16. Proceedings against Engrossers and other Offenders, 1631 386 17. Order of Somersetshire Justices Granting a Settlement to a Labourer, 1630–1 386 18. Report of Derbyshire Justices on their Proceedings, 1631 387 19. Letter from Privy Council to Justices of Rutlandshire, 1631 390 20. Judgment in the Star Chamber against an Engrosser of Corn, 1631 391

      SECTION V

       THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE

1.	Letters Patent granted to the Cabots by Henry VII, 1496	400
2.	The Merchant Adventurers' Case for Allowing the Export of Undressed Cloth, 1514–36	402
3.	The Rise in Prices, the Encouragement of Corn growing, and the Protection of Manufactures, c. 1549	404
4.	Sir Thomas Gresham on the Fall of the Exchanges, 1558	416
5.	The reasons why Bullion is Exported (temp. Eliz.)	419
6.	The Italian Merchants Explain the Foreign Exchanges, 1576	420
7.	An Act Avoiding divers Foreign Wares made by Handicraftsmen Beyond the Seas, 1562	424
8.	An Act Touching Cloth Workers and Cloth Ready Wrought to be Shipped over the Sea, 1566	426
9.	Incorporation of a Joint Stock Mining Company, 1568	427
10.	An Act for the Increase of Tillage, 1571	428
11.	Instructions for an English Factor in Turkey, 1582	431
12.	The Advantages of Colonies, 1583	434
13.	Lord Burghley to Sir Christopher Hatton on the State of Trade, 1587	438
14.	A List of Patents and Monopolies, 1603	440
15.	Instructions Touching the Bill for Free Trade, 1604	443
16.	The Establishment of a Company to export Dyed and Dressed Cloth in place of the Merchant Adventurers, 1616–17	454
17.	Sir Julius Cæsar's proposals for Reviving the Trade in Cloths, 1616	460
18.	The Grant of a Monopoly for the Manufacture of Soap, 1623	461
19.	The Statute of Monopolies, 1623–4	465
20.	An Act for the Free Trade of Welsh Cloths, 1623–4	468
21.	The Economic Policy of Strafford in Ireland, 1636	470
22.	Revocation of Commissions, Patents and Monopolies Granted by the Crown, 1639	472
23.	Ordinance establishing an Excise, 1643	475

      PART III: 1660–1846 SECTION I INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS