CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I PAGE 



Communistic Farming. Growth of the Manor. Early 



Prices. The Organization and Agriculture of the Manor i 



CHAPTER II 



The Thirteenth Century. The Manor at its Zenith, with Seeds 



of Decay already visible. Walter of Henley . . . 24 



CHAPTER III 



The Fourteenth Century. Decline of Agriculture. The Black 



Death. Statute of Labourers 38 



CHAPTER IV 



How the Classes connected with the Land lived in the Middle 



Ages 48 



CHAPTER V 



The Break-up of the Manor. Spread of Leases. The 

 Peasants' Revolt. Further Attempts to regulate Wages. 

 A Harvest Home. Beginning of the Corn Laws. Some 

 Surrey Manors ........ 56 



CHAPTER VI 



1400-1540. The so-called 'Golden Age of the Labourer' in 



a Period of General Distress ...... 66 



CHAPTER VII 

 Enclosure 73 



CHAPTER VIII 



Fitzherbert. The Regulation of Hours and Wages . . 83 



