This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... 31 CHAPTER II. RISE OF THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM. The present social and economic system of England has arisen by a gradual process of development out of the mediaeval system. The mediasval system was characterised by two great institutions, feudalism and the Catholic Church; and they fell about ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... 31 CHAPTER II. RISE OF THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM. The present social and economic system of England has arisen by a gradual process of development out of the mediaeval system. The mediasval system was characterised by two great institutions, feudalism and the Catholic Church; and they fell about the same time. Their fall led to social results of the greatest importance. The lands of the Church were appropriated by the king and the courtiers; and the land system generally underwent an enormous change. In feudal times the power of the noble depended on the number of the fighting men he could bring into the field; but after the feudal regime had given place to the strongly centralised rule of the Tudors and the constitutional government of later times, the influence of the noble depended chiefly on the length of his rent-roll. The object of the landholder was, not to keep up the fighting force of his retainers and dependents, but to raise the means with which to support his rank at the royal court, to control elections and in other ways to maintain his prestige under the more peaceful conditions of the new time. Under the feudal system the cultivators had a fixed interest in the soil, for which they rendered customary dues. Under the new system the landholders found it more profitable to convert the small holdings of the peasantry into sheep-runs, and to favour a larger system of cultivation. In short, the medieval land-system was superseded by the commercial and modern one; and the old feudal retainers, the tenants of the Church, and the tenants of the feudal owners were in great numbers driven from the soil. In this way began towards the close of the fifteenth century that process of eviction, which has continued in Ireland and the...
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