INDEX

Abbot’s Ripton, 145, 303

Acton, Lord, 75

Acts of Parliament: (1341), 63; (1545), 164; (1552), 164, 183; (1571), 164, 183, 185, 190; (1597), 182; (1601), 268; (1662), 268; (1834), 269, 322

Aegidius Lessinus, 289, 290

Agriculture, 68–9, 142–54, 230. See also under Land

Alcock Thomas, 267

Alien immigrants, 205, 310

Almsgiving, condemnation of, 119, 122, 263; a duty, 258–60

America, Calvinism in, 135–9, 226, 237, 317

Ames, 215–16, 314

Amsterdam, 113

Annuities, 54, 217

Antwerp, ix, 82–5, 88, 90, 95, 96, 113, 172, 180, 181, 298

Apparel, excess in, 123, 135

Archdeacons, jurisdiction of, 60, 64, 166, 290–1, 306

Asceticism, 30, 31, 32

Ashley, Sir William, xiv

Ashton, T. S., 251, 322

Aske, 146

Augsburg, 95

Bacon, 153, 155, 189

Baillie, 214

Bancroft, Archbishop, 189, 213

Bank, at Geneva, 128; of England, 250–1

Banking, deposit, 180

Barbon, Dr Nicholas, 245–6

Bargaining, equity in, 157, 163, 184, 186, 191, 221–2, 224, 243, 270. See also Prices and Profits

Baro, 215, 314

Basle, 128; Council of, 112

Baxter, Richard, 22, 32, 200, 203, 207, 219–24, 225, 241–2 (quoted), 251, 258, 266, 284

Becon, 91, 146, 149

Beggars. See Almsgiving and Vagrancy

Bellarmin, 90

Bellers, 32, 269

Benvenuto da Imola, quoted, 24

Berkeley, Bishop, 267, 268

Berthold, Brother, 224

Beza, 127, 130, 131, 214

Birmingham, 204

Bishops, 165, 169, 308. See also Commissary, Court of High Commission and Courts, ecclesiastical

Bodin, 91

Böheim, Hans, 91

Bolingbroke, 207

Boniface VIII, 32, 34

Bossuet, 92

Boston, 136–8

Bourges, 62

Braddon, Lawrence, 311

Bradford, 203

_______, Governor, 135, 302

Brentano, x, xiv, 312

Bristol, 202

Bruges, 83

Bucer, 32, 75, 91, 92, 113, 124, 147, 214–15

Bullinger, 32, 91, 123, 184

Bunyan, 22, 32, 199, 224, 266, 303

Burford, 185

Buridanus, Johannes, 289

Bury, 217

Cahorsines, 42, 287, 291

‘Calling’, x, 239–44, 312, 317–18

Calvin, v, vii, ix, 23, 32, 103, 111–39, 147; teaching of, on usury, 91, 92, 134, 184, 215, 216, 232, 238. See also Calvinism

Calvinism, x, 111–39, 232–3; sanctification of economic enterprise by, 47, 113, 116–19, 123, 232, 238; connexion of individualism with, 121, 226, 313; discipline of, vii, 118, 121, 122, 124–39, 214–15, 218, 226, 232, 233, 237, 313; development of, in England, 121, 198; in Scotland, 121, 134–5; in France, 133–4; in America, 135–9, 226, 237, 317; in Holland, 211. See also Calvin and Puritanism

Cambridge, 315

Canon law. See Law, canon

Canonists, 49, 63, 66, 71, 109. See also Law, canon.

Canterbury, 205; archbishop of, 59, 160; Canons of, 165

Capitalism, early appearance of, 29, 38, 93, 225

Carpenters, parliament of, 285

Cartwright, Thomas, 213, 215

Catholicism, and capitalism, 93, 312

Cattle, loaning of, 65, 159, 185

Cecil, William, 150, 169

Chalmers, Dr, 269, 322

Charles I, social policy of, 173–8, 210, 235–6, 316–17

Charles V, 81, 88–9

Chauvet, 131

Choisy, xiv, 301

Church, medieval, attitude of, to established social order, 68–71; ideals of, 71–4

_______ of England, 140–96: conservatism of, 94, 159–63; ineffectiveness of, 187–96; Puritanism represented in, 198. See also Clergy, Councils (Church), Courts (ecclesiastical), Law (canon), Papacy, Reformation, Religion, and under State

Clarendon Code, 204

_____, Constitutions of, 62

______, Earl of, 177, 204, 248, 250, 319

Class hatred, 31, 38, 131, 149

Classes, Puritan, 213, 214, 217, 314, 315

Clayton, Sir Robert, 319

Clergy, taking of usury by, 42, 58, 64, 156, 166, 167, 287–8, 295; subservience of, 163, 275; return of, to City churches, 204; popular sympathies of, in France, 275. See also Church of England

Cloth industry, 113, 141, 147, 151; capitalism in, 80, 180, 266; distress in, 172, 205, 310; wages in, 177, 287, 316; regulation of, 178, 235, 236, 316; Puritanism in centres of, 202, 203–4, 320; proposed nationalization of, 235. See also Textile workers

Coke, 190

Colbert, 86, 235

Cologne, 49

Colonization, 80, 236, 317

Colquhoun, Patrick, 309

Columbus, 77, 79, 97

Combines, of traders, 67, 97, 104, 286

Commissary, Court of, 65, 166, 295, 306

Commons, enclosure of, 145, 171, 254, 256, 257–8. See also Enclosures

‘Commonwealth men’, 149

Communal movement, 68

Communism, 45, 254

Confessors, instructions to, 60

Congregationalism, 198

Consistory, at Geneva, 124, 127–32

Constance, Council of, 112

Consumption, 46, 230, 247, 249

Copper, 83, 85, 88

Copyholders, 144, 152, 171, 303

Corn, engrossing of, 130, 131, 171–2, 178, 307, 308. See also Granaries

Coulton, G. G., xiv, 24, 42

Councils, Church, 58–9, 63, 66, 290

Court, De la, 206

Court of Arches, 189

_______Chancery, 63, 64

_______Delegates, 190

_______High Commission, 166, 190, 191, 212, 214, 236

_______Star Chamber, 144, 178, 212, 307, 316

Courts, ecclesiastical, jurisdiction of, 62–5, 164–7, 189–91, 212, 214, 295, 296; royal, 69, 96. See also the several Courts above-mentioned

Coventry, 50, 304

Craftsmen, deceits practised by, 37, 134, 293: relations between merchants and, 38, 141, 143, 177, 235; labour of, honourable, 101. See also Gilds and Wage-earners

Cranmer, 92, 165

Cromwell, Oliver, 199, 218, 227 (quoted), 248, 256, 313

Crowley, Robert, 91, 146, 148, 150 and 153 (quoted)

Cunningham, William, xiv, 211, 212 (quoted)

Curia, papal, 59

Currency, depreciation of, 86, 142, 151, 181

Dedham, 217

Defoe, xi, 205, 251, 311, 322

Depopulation, 150, 152, 176–7, 182, 223, 236, 253, 307, 317. See also Enclosures

D’Ewes, 216–17

Dixey, Prof., 253

Diggers, 254, 313

Discoveries, x, 77, 79, 83, 95, 96, 140, 312

Dives et Pauper, 22, 215

Downing, Sir George, 250

Duns Scotus, 46

Dutch, virtues of, 211, 251, 267; capital supplied to England by, 248, 250, 319. See also Holland

East Anglia, 177, 178; Puritanism in, 202, 203

_______India Co., 317

Eck, 90

Economic science, development of, 163, 184, 204, 248. See also Economists and Political Arithmetic

Economists, 248; attitude of, towards religious tolerance, 23, 204–5, 206; attitude of, towards poor relief, 265–70, 321. See also Economic science

Edict of Nantes, 205

Education, 146, 147, 148, 159, 217

Elizabeth. See Tudors

Enclosures, 142–50; popular agitations against, 142–3, 145, 148–50, 254, 320; steps taken by Government to suppress, 143, 150, 152, 176–7, 182, 234, 235, 253, 307; attitude of Puritans to, 216, 223, 236, 253–8. See also under Gentry

Engrossers, 51, 52, 66, 127, 143, 145, 168, 172, 178, 194, 238, 307, 308

England, comparison of, with Continent, 21, 29, 66, 80, 140, 230

Erasmus, 82, 86

Erastians, 214

Evangelicals, 196, 253

Exchanges, foreign, discussions on, 55, 88, 162, 163, 181, 313; control of, 84, 171, 172, 235, 236, 307, 316; lawfulness of transactions on, 90

Exchequer, Stop of, 224

Exclusion Bill, 203

Excommunication, 42, 57, 58, 59, 64, 125, 129, 147, 165, 166, 213, 293; disregarding of, 163, 191

Exeter, 204; bishop of, 173

Fenton, Roger, quoted, 114, 161

Ferrar, Nicholas, 261

Feudalism, 35, 67–70, 231; decline of, 68–9, 151–2, 153. See also Peasants

Figgis, Dr, 19

Financiers, medieval attitude to, 36, 45; international, rise of, 56–7, 82, 83, 84–5, 87–9, 93; attitude of Swiss reformers to, 112–13, 116. See also Usury

Firmin, 269

Flanders. See Low Countries

Flavell, John, 318

Fletcher of Saltoun, 263

Florence, 29, 49, 62, 285, 288, 312

Foley, Thomas, 251

Fondaco Tedesco, 78

Food supplies, control of, 177, 234, 235, 260. See also Corn

Fox, 199, 200

Foxe, 165

France, 65, 86, 235, 248, 266, 275, 287; peasantry in, 69, 70, 141, 156; Calvinism in, 133–4, 203, 237. See also Lyons and Paris

Franciscans, 31, 65; Spiritual, 68

Frankfurt, 39, 85, 95, 118, 286

Franklin, Benjamin, 237

Free cities, 68

Freeholders, 202, 203, 256

Freiburg, 95

Friars. See Mendicant Orders

Froissart, 31

Froude, 18

Fruiterers, of London, 66–7

Fuggers, The, 88–9, 90, 91, 96, 97, 99, 109, 194, 298

Gay, Prof., 151

Geiler von Kaiserberg, 97

Geneva, 112, 113, 121, 123, 124–32, 133, 135, 214, 215, 226, 232, 233, 302

Genoa, 59

Gentry, opposition of, to prevention of enclosures, 150, 152, 182, 236, 253, 255, 256–7, 304; attitude of, to commercial classes, 208–9

George, Lloyd, quoted, 18

Germany, v, 40, 65, 78, 86, 97, 248, 286; peasantry in, 69, 70, 91, 96, 97, 100, 102, 141, 144, 156, 297; trade and banking business of, 78, 80, 84, 85, 88, 95–7, 99, 312; Reformation in, 89, 91, 92–3, 95–110, 118, 146

Gilds, 39–41, 65, 79, 96, 141, 142, 144, 286, 295, 304

Glasgow, 237

Godfrey, Michael, 250, 251

Goldsmiths, 248

Granaries, public, 235, 316

Gratian, 45, 47

Gregory VII, 32

Gresham, Sir Richard, 145

_______, Sir Thomas, 22, 148, 181, 182

Grindal, Archbishop, 165

Grosstête, Bishop, 42, 287

Hale, Sir Matthew, 261

Hales, John, 149, 150

Halifax, 204

Hamilton, John, 293

Hammond, Mr and Mrs, 31

Hanse League, 78, 83

Harrington, 180

Harris, Walter, 267

Harrison, 268

Hartlib, Samuel, 262

Hatfield Chase, 178

Haugs, The, 88

Heming, Nicholas, 160, 161 (quoted)

Henry of Langenstein, quoted, 48, 53–4

Herberts, The, 145

Hipler, 97

Hobbes, 31

Hochstetters, The, 88, 97, 298

Holland, 21, 208; wars and commercial rivalry of England with, 20, 248, 250, 266, 318–19; religious developments in, 23, 206, 211, 226; economic progress of, x, 23, 204, 211, 216, 230, 312; controversy in, about usury, 134, 237; emigration of Dissenters to, 310. See also Dutch and Low Countries

Holland, Lord, 236

Honorius of Augsburg, 285

Hooker, Richard, 170, 174, 233

Hospitals, 65, 149, 260, 261

Hostiensis, 162, 299

Houblon, James and John, 250

House of Commons, 148, 182, 183, 191, 262

_______Convocation, 164, 184

_______Lords, 254

Huguenots, 205, 250

Humanists, 89, 118, 122, 262

Hutten, 97

Imhofs, The, 88

Independents, 121, 212, 214, 218, 250

Indians American, 138, 188

Indifferentism, 30, 31, 32, 274

Individualism, rise of, 24, 27, 35, 75, 84, 90, 146, 167, 170, 176, 178–96, 218, 226, 233, 234, 248, 252, 253, 260, 313; deduction of, from teaching of reformers, 93, 99, 121, 226. See also under Puritanism

Industrial Revolution, 31, 196

Innocent IV, 56, 287

Interesse, 54, 55

Interest, ‘pure’, 54; lawful, 90, 299; rate of, 128, 131, 132, 136, 158, 164, 166, 184, 319. See also Interesse and Usury

Ireland, 230, 267, 322; Church of, 165

Ireton, 256

Iron industry, 202, 220, 251, 322

Italy, v, 22, 65, 68, 82; medieval capitalism in, 93, 95, 312; wage-earners in, 38–9, 50, 286; financiers of, 42, 56, 83, 88, 141; canonists of, 66; economic position of, 77, 80, 230. See also Florence and Venice

Jacquerie, 69

Jewel, Bishop, 91, 160

Jews, 49, 97, 248

John XXII, Bull of, 68

John of Salisbury (quoted), 35, 37, 285

Joint-stock enterprise, 180

Jones, Rev. David, 245

Journeymen. See Wage-earners

Justices of the Peace, usurers dealt with by, 168, 172–3; regulation of markets by, 177; closing of public-houses by, 218; administration of poor laws by, 177, 235, 261; administration of orders against enclosures by, 176, 253

Keane, Robert, 136–8

Ket, 149, 297

Keynes, J. M., 249, 280

Kidderminster, 207, 219

Knewstub, 215, 314

Knox, John, 23, 32, 123, 126 (quoted), 135, 213

Laissez faire, 122

Lancashire, Puritanism in, 203, 214, 320. See also Bury

Land, 141–54; purchase of, by nouveaux riches and speculation in, 96, 144–5, 148–9, 180, 208, 255; mortgaging of, 112, 172. See also Enclosures, Landlords, Pasture farming, Property, Rents

Landlords, oppressions of, 62, 145, 150, 152, 153, 160, 168, 171, 176, 222–3, 235, 237, 293; ecclesiastical, 68, 70–1, 144, 149. See also Peasants and Rents

Langland, 31, 259

Lateran Councils, 58, 66

Latimer, 23, 32, 91, 146, 149, 150, 253, 255, 260, 271, 281

Laud, 23, 32, 121, 140, 174–9, 191, 205, 210, 212, 235, 236, 253, 307

Laurentius de Rudolfis, 22, 284

Law, canon, 22, 70, 74, 90, 169; rules of, as to usury, 24, 49–66, 103, 104; discredit of, 75, 148, 163, 191; continued appeal to, 90, 94, 162–7. See also Canonists

_______, civil, 164

_______, common, 165, 189

_______, natural, 51–2, 73, 183, 195

Law, John, 251

_______, William, 194

Leach, A. F., 148

Leadam, 151

Lease-mongers, 148

Leicester, 204, 253–4, 256

Leonard, Miss, 177

Levellers, 32, 212, 254, 313

Lever, 91, 146, 149, 160

Linen industry, 147

Lisbon, 88, 95, 96

Loans, charitable, 65, 159, 168, 260–1, 296. See also Interest and Usury

Locke, 20 (quoted), 25, 183, 192, 248, 256

Lollards, 61

Lombard bankers, 41, 63

London, 39, 63, 64, 65, 66, 112, 145, 261; money-market in, 85, 141, 180; Nonconformity in, 113, 203, 204, 213, 214, 242, 250; fire of, 204, 220; bishop of, 41, 65, 166, 287

Lotteries, 134, 302

Low Countries, 65, 80, 81, 82–3, 86, 230, 296; early capitalism in, 29, 38, 93, 285, 312; wage-earners in, 38, 50, 285. See also Antwerp and Holland

Luchaire, A., 42

Luther, v, 23, 32, 48, 89–110, 112, 113, 115, 124, 239–40, 263, 291

Lyndwood, 66

Lyons, 85, 86, 128; Poor Men of, 31; Council of, 58

Machiavelli, 21, 25, 90, 187, 312

Maidstone, 205

Maitland, 164

Major, 115

Malynes, G., 181

Mandeville, 193 (quoted), 309

Manning, B. L., 32

Marx, Karl, viii, 48, 120, 266

Massachusetts, 135–6

Melanchthon, 91, 101, 115, 162

Mendicant orders, 31, 101, 107, 239

Mercantilism, 43, 89, 113, 147, 236, 249

Merchant Adventurers, 78, 83, 84

Merchants. See Traders

Meutings, The, 88, 298

Middle classes, rise of, 21, 95, 96, 103, 119, 180, 207–8, 233, 266; Calvinism and Puritanism among, 120, 122, 190, 202–11, 230, 263, 313; qualities of, 120, 208, 211, 230; humbler, outlook and economic position of, 168, 207, 242, 311

Middlemen. See Traders

Mill, J. S., 242

Milton, 199, 230

Mines, of New World, 78; of Europe, 78, 85, 88; capitalism in working of, 80, 180

Monarchy, paternal. See Charles I and Tudors

Monasteries, loans by, 65, 296; relief of beggars by, 101, 123, 263; dissolution of, 143–6, 149, 231; income of, 303

Moneylenders. See Financiers, Interest, Usury

Money-market. See Exchanges, Financiers, and under London.

Monopolies. See Patents

Monopolists, denunciations of, 50–1, 91, 97, 102, 104–5, 127, 221

Montesquieu, ix, 208

Monts de Piété, 55, 65, 296, 317

Moore, John, 255, 257

More, Sir Thomas, 83, 143, 144

Mosse, Miles, 160, 162, 164 (quoted)

Mullins, Archdeacon, 306

Nationalism, 78, 87

Netherlands. See Holland

New England, Calvinism in, 135–8

New Model Army, 219

Nicholas III, 42

North, Sir Dudley, quoted, 248

Notre-Dame, Cathedral of, 42, 288

Nürnberg, 95, 118

O’Brien, G., xiv

Oecolampadius, 91, 114, 123

Oresme, Nicholas, 22, 284

Owen, Robert, 269

Oziander, 92

Paget, 150

Paley, 281

Pallavicino, 181

Papacy, avarice and corruption of, 41–2, 94, 99, 101, 119; financial relations of, 42, 57, 290

Papillon, Thomas, 250

Papists, unaptness of, for business, 206; charity of, 232, 263, 317

Paris, 39, 85, 90, 128, 133, 157, 160, 287; bishop of, 42

Parish, loans by, 65, 159, 296; organization of, 159, 305

Parker, Bishop, quoted, 204

Parliament, Levellers’ demands for reform of, 254

_______, Barebones, 218, 246

_______, Long, 179, 191, 236, 253, 255

‘Parliaments’ of wage-earners, 39, 285–6

Partnership, profits of, lawful, 54, 290; fictitious, 60, 291

Pasture farming, 141, 142, 144, 145, 147, 150, 176, 182. See also Enclosures

Patents, 235, 236, 316

Paterson, William, 250–1

Pawnbroking, 56, 168, 224

Peasants, associations among, 39; harshness of lot of, 69; revolts of, 69, 70, 80, 148–50, 254, 297; revolts of, in Germany, 69, 70, 91, 97, 102, 144, 150, 297; emancipation of, 68–70, 78–9, 96, 141, 151; comparison of, with peasantry of France and Germany, 70, 96, 141, 156; calling of, praised, 101. See also Jacquerie and Landlords

Peckham, Archbishop, 42

Pecock, Bishop, 61, 66, 108, 292, 297

Penn, William, 191

Pennsylvania, 237

Pepys, 204

Petty, Sir William, xi, 206, 248, 249 (quoted)

Piccarda, 30

Pilgrimage of Grace, 146

Pirenne, Prof., 84, 285

Political Arithmetic, 24, 189, 192, 204, 248. See also Economic science

Pollexfen, Henry, 267

Ponet, 91, 146

Poor, 193; relief of, 91, 101, 122–3, 146, 149, 159, 165, 196, 238, 258, 269–70; investment for benefit of, 134, 185, 302; legislation re relief of, 135, 260, 262–3, 269–70, 322; administration of laws for relief of, 172, 177, 178, 235, 261–2; right of, to relief, 262, 269; relief of, to be deterrent, 268, 322; able-bodied, employment of, 172, 260, 261, 262, 268. See also Almsgiving, Poverty, Vagrancy

_______ Law Commissioners, 268, 322

Portugal, 80, 81, 83, 85, 93

Poverty, attitude of Swiss reformers to, 114, 122–3, 139; attitude to, in eighteenth century, 193, 309; attitude of Puritans to, 229, 232, 241, 253, 257–70; medieval attitude to, 258–9, 320; causes of, 260, 262, 264, 268, 322. See also Poor

Predestination, 117, 120

Presbyterianism, 121, 198, 203, 207, 212, 214–15, 217, 233, 250, 314. See also Puritanism

Prices, rise in, 23, 80, 85, 89, 91, 142, 143, 181, 184; just, doctrine as to, 30, 40, 49, 52–4, 91, 103–5, 157, 160, 216, 221–2, 223, 243, 266, 287, 289, 315, 322; control of, 53–4, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 136–8, 147, 148, 171–2, 177, 182, 260, 317; opposition to control of, 182, 234, 308, See also Bargaining

Privy Council, activities of, 170–3, 176–7, 260

Production, 247, 249

Profits, medieval doctrine as to, 44, 47–8, 55, 113; attempted limitation of, in New England 135–8. See also Traders

Property, theories as to, 44–5, 112, 151–4, 192–3, 255–6, 258, 260

Prophesyings, 201

Public-houses, closing of, 218

Puritanism, xii, 197–270; quarrel between monarchy and, 20, 212, 234–6, 316–17; medieval, 31; discipline of, 121–2, 135–8, 190, 212–18, 233, 313; theology of, 121, 227–9; connexion of individualism with, 121, 135, 212–13, 218, 226, 229–37, 252–3, 264, 269–70, 313; divergent elements in, 198, 212, 233, 313; sanctification of business life by, 199, 201, 229–30, 232, 238–52, 269; geographical distribution of, 202–4; connexion of, with capitalism, 209, 211, 312–13. See also Calvinism, Presbyterianism, and under Middle Classes, Poverty, Riches, and Usury

Quakers, v, 32, 269–70, 322

Quarter Sessions. See Justices of the Peace

Rabelais, 87

Rationalism, medieval, 31

Reformation, relation of, to changes in social theory, vii, viii, xii, 28, 32, 75–6, 90, 92–5, 98–102, 146, 158–63

Regensburg, 95

Religion, sphere of, all-embracing, vii, 18–19, 21–3, 26–7, 30, 32–48, 71–4, 90, 92–5, 99–100, 152–3, 155–79, 186, 220–1, 224–5, 272, 273, 275, 279 (see also under Traders); economic and social activities excluded from province of, vi–vii, 18, 19–27, 30–1, 100, 106–10, 178–9, 180–96, 220–1, 225, 236–7, 252–3, 271–81; wars of, 20, 128. See also Asceticism, Calvinism, Indifferentism, Presbyterianism, Puritanism, Reformation, Tolerance

Rent-charge, 54, 55, 104, 185, 290

Rents, control of, at Geneva, 125; raising of, 128, 145, 150, 157; Baxter’s teaching re, 223, 224

Rhode Island, 237

Riches, medieval attitude to, 44–5, 47–8, 66, 278, 297; attitude of Calvinists and Puritans to, 139, 229–30, 238, 264–5; modern attitude to, 280. See also Financiers and Traders

Ridley, Thomas, quoted, 190

Robertson, H. M., x

Root and Branch Petition, 310

Rotenburg, 95

Rouen, 85

Royal African Company, 248, 319

St Ambrose, 258

St Andrews, 135; archbishop of, 62

St Antonino, 22, 30, 44, 45 (cited), 53, 98, 224, 284, 288, 289

St Augustine, 59

St Bernard, 42

St Francis, 31, 68

St Johns, The, 145, 303

St Léon, Martin, 40 (quoted), 286, 287

St Raymond, 60, 157

St Thomas Aquinas, 30, 33 (quoted), 44, 45, 39–40 (quoted), 48, 51 (quoted), 52, 70, 157, 162, 200, 224, 258, 299

Salerno, archbishop of, 59

Salisbury, bishop of, 160; mayor of, 218

Sanderson, Bishop, 191

Sandwich, 205

Sandys, Bishop, 91, 160

Saye and Sele, Lord, 178, 308

Schoolmen, v, 22, 28, 30, 32, 43–8, 52–3, 89, 92, 153, 157, 160, 162, 186, 200, 224. See also St Antonino and St Thomas

Schools, 148, 196, 304. See also Education

Schulze-Gaevernitz, 211

Scotland, 121, 134–5, 213; Commissioners from, 214

Scriveners, 180

Self-interest, harmony of needs of society with, 26, 37, 183, 194, 195, 244, 257, 271

Senior, Nassau, 269, 322

Serfdom, 35, 68–7, 100, 102–3, 297. See also Peasants

Seville, 85

Shaftesbury, Earl of, 248

Shaw, W. A., 214

Sheep-grazing. See Pasture farming

Sigismund, Emperor, Reformation of, 40, 97, 287

Silver, of America, 78, 81, 83, 140; of Europe, 88

Sion, monastery of, 145

Slave-trade, 188

Smiles, Samuel, 251

Smith, Adam, 24, 25, 48, 195, 252

_______, Rev. Henry, 215, 314

_______, Sir Thomas, 164

Smiths, of London, 64, 285–6, 295

Soap, monopoly of, 236, 316

Social Democratic movement, 218–19

Society, functional theory of, 26, 35–8, 102, 106, 153, 173–4, 175, 192, 194, 253; modern conception of, 26, 35, 192, 194

Somerset, Duke of, 124, 151, 304

South Sea Bubble, 194

Spain, 80, 81, 82, 83, 86, 93; financiers of, 90

Speculation. See Engrossers

Speenhamland, 262

Spices, 83, 85, 88, 95

Spurriers, of London, 64, 295

Starkey, 143

State, relation between Church and, 20–3, 33, 80, 100, 110, 132, 163, 169–70, 174–5, 176, 178–9, 215, 273; Locke’s conception of, 20, 183, 192; unitary, 39, 286; Distributive, 101, 155

Steele, Richard, 239–40 and 241 (quoted), 242–4, 249, 264

Stockwood, Rev. J., quoted, 263

Strafford, Earl of, 210, 212, 235

Strassburg, 85

Stubbes, Philip, 215

Summae, 30, 32, 43, 219. See also Schoolmen

Swift, Dean, 206

Switzerland, 88, 208; Reformation in, 111–33, 146, 263. See also Geneva

Synods, French, 133

Taunton, 204

Taylor, Jeremy, 160 (quoted), 190

Temple, Sir William, xi, 206

Tenures, military, abolition of, 256

Textile workers, of Flanders and Italy, 38–9, 285; of Paris, 287. For England, see under Cloth industry

Tolerance, religious, 23–4, 122, 126, 178–9, 197, 204–6

Tories, 206

Townsend, Rev. J., 309

Trade, flourishing of, under religious tolerance, 23–4, 197, 204–6; free exercise of, 179; foreign, increase of, 141, 180, 231; balance of, 184, 245, 248. See also Traders

Trade unionism, 39, 64, 286–7

Traders, medieval attitude to, 31, 36, 44–8, 49–50, 113; relations between craftsmen and, 38, 141, 143, 177, 235; sanctification of occupation of, 47, 113–14, 116–20, 123, 199, 201, 229–30, 232, 238–52, 270; frauds and extortion of, 62, 113, 127, 133, 134, 147, 157, 160, 293, 302; Luther’s attitude to, 101; growth of power of, 141, 142; purchase of land by, 145, 208, 255; breakdown of State control of, 182–3, 235. See also Bargaining, Prices, Profits, Trade

Travers, W., 213

Troeltsch, Prof., v, xiv, 100, 211, 312

Tucker, Dean, 24, 195, 197 (quoted), 309

Tudors, social policy of, 168–74, 234, 260, 263, 268

Turks, 78, 79

Tyrol, 78, 85, 88

Udall, J., 213

Ulm, 95

Unwin, Prof., 177

Usher, R. G., 202

Usury, controversy on, 91, 92, 155–68, 181–7; teaching of medieval Church on, 30, 49–52, 54–66; practising of, on large scale, in Middle Ages, 41–2, 56–7, 180; restitution of profits of, 42, 59, 61; enforcement of prohibition of, 49–50, 57–65, 127, 129, 132, 135, 164–7, 168, 172–3, 190, 194, 236, 237, 291, 292, 293, 306; prevalence of, 50–1, 156; popular denunciations of, 51, 91, 142–3, 156–8; certain transactions not regarded as, 54–5, 104, 185, 216, 217, 289–90; ecclesiastical legislation re, 24, 58–9, 63, 65–6; secular legislation re, 63, 158, 164, 183–4, 185, 190–1; devices for concealment of, 58, 60, 65, 291; attitude of reformers to, in Germany, 91, 92, 103, 104, 109; in Switzerland, 91, 92, 112–16, 125, 128–32, 184–5, 215, 216; in France, 134, 302; Puritan attitude to, 209, 213, 215–17, 222, 224, 231–2, 237, 245, 250, 266, 314, 315, 317. See also Interest, Loans, and under Clergy

Utilitarianism, 226, 242, 268

Utrecht, University of, 237

Vagrancy, 101, 172, 217, 260, 262, 263, 267, 268. See also Almsgiving and Poor

Value, theories of, 48, 52

Venice, 78, 80, 83, 85, 96, 128, 312

Vienne, Council of, 58

Villeinage. See Serfdom.

Virtues, economic, 114, 119, 123, 227–51, 269, 270

Vives, 122

Voltaire, 208

Wage-earners, small number of, 39, 50, 142, 156, 207, 266, 286; organizations of, 39, 286–7; attitude of economists to, 266–8. See also Wages

Wages, withholding of, 62, 222, 293; regulation of, 136, 171, 177, 178, 234, 235, 287, 316; payment of, in truck, 157, 177, 235. See also Wage-earners

Walker, Gordon, v, xii

Wallas, Graham, 25

Wamba, 99

Warburton, 195

Ward, Sir Patience, 250

Warwick, Earl of, 150

Warwickshire, 143, 320

Washerne, 145

Wealth. See Production and Riches Weber, Max, v, vii–xii, xiv, 211, 312–13, 315, 318

Welsers, The, 88, 97, 298

Wentworth, 177–8

Wesley, 194

Westminster Assembly, 23, 214, 217

Whalley, ecclesiastical court of, 65

_______, Major-General, 256, 320

Whigs, 203, 205, 251

Whitby Abbey, 145

Whole Duty of Man, The, 194–5

Widows and orphans, usury for benefit of, 185, 232

Williams, Roger, 136

Wilson, Thomas, 160, 162, 164 (cited), 182, 233, 315

Wiltshire, 218, 236

Winstanley, Gerrard, 121 (quoted), 254

Witt, John de, 206

Wolsey, 143, 151

Wood, H. G., xiv, 314

Woodrow, Rev. Robert, quoted, 237

Woollen industry. See Cloth industry

Workhouses, 267, 268, 322

Works, good, 117, 119, 237, 240, 264, 317

Wyclif, 31, 37–8 (quoted), 39–40, 51 (quoted), 52, 286

Yarranton, A., 251

Yeomen, 69, 202

York, Province of, 165, 173

Yorke, Sir John, 145

Yorkshire, 146, 166, 203–4

Young, Arthur, 268

Younge, R., quoted, 264

Zürich, 112, 123, 125

Zwingli, 91, 112, 123, 125