CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I PAGE 



Communistic Farming. — Growth of the Manor. — Early 



Prices. — The Organization and Agriculture of the Manor i 



CHAPTER H 



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



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



CHAPTER HI 



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 

 nL 1 400- 1 5 40. The so-called 'Golden Age of the Labourer' in 



a Period of General Distress 66 



CHAPTER VII 

 -7C Enclosure 73 



CHAPTER VIII 



Fitzherbert. — The Regulation of Hours and Wages . . 83 



