The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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542 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM AD. 16% landed men might be able to make these large contributions "to the expenses of government, both local and national. The Whig scheme for the economic development of the country did not merely appeal to the moneyed men, whether merchants or manufacturers, but to the landed proprietors?, in so far as they were ready and willing to devote themselves to the improvement of their estates. The sinking of money in land, with the view of obtaining a regular return by an increased rental, had been recognised as a sound form of business enterprise in Elizabethan and Jacobean times. The spirited proprietors of the eighteenth century were not content, however, with occasional and permanent works, but busied themselves about changing the practice of ordinary farming operations for the better. Whether from lack of energy or lack of security, the tenants do not seem to have done much in this direction at first. The great advance in the management and working of land, which occurred during the eighteenth century, was due to the landlords and was were keenly initiated under the influence of men of wealth. In carrying interested z v innew out these improvements they had to contend, not only with methods of the difficulties which were due to deficiency of knowledge, since scientific agriculture did not exist, but with the time- honoured prejudices of those who had practised traditional methods and who were constitutionally averse to any change? The wealthy land- owners of the eighteenth cenlury 1 The plan adopted under Locke's influence for recoinage in 1696 favoured the landed rather than the moneyed interest at the time. See p. 436 above. 2 From the point of view of Norden, a seventeenth century surveyor, the small Ireeholder was merely obstructive. He writes as follows. Lord. “As farre as I can perceive, an observing and painful husband liveth, fareth, and thriveth, as well npon his Farme of ract rent, as many do that are called Freeholders, or that have Leases of great value for small rent. Surveyor. There is some reason for it, which every man either seeth not, or seeing it, doth not consider it, or considering it, hath no will or power to reforme it. Some Freeholders, and the Lessees of great things of small rent, bring up their children too nicely, and must needs, forsooth, Gentleize them; and the eldest sonne of a meane man must be a young master, he must not labour, nor lay hand on the plough (take heed of his dis- grace), hee shall have ynough fo maintaine him like, and in the societie of gentlemen, not like a drudge. And when this young gentleman comes to his land (long he thinkes) he hath no leasure to labor, for Hawking or Hunting or Bowling or Ordinaries or some vaine or lascivious or wanton course or other, leaving ploughe and seede and harvest, and sale to some ordinary hireling, who may doe what he list, if the poore wife be as carelesse at home, as the husband is abroad; And at his elbowe he hath perchaunce some vaine persons, that disswade bom covetousnesse and from too much frugalite, and that he needes not to care

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