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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PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM the curious and complicated local measures to a common standard, for the convenience of his readers it is true, but to the loss of those who are curious in metric systems. 2uniss There are, however, many passages in his writings which ing syr- describe the survival of primitive practices’. Thus at Mya . . . . Boynton, in Yorkshire?, he found remains of extensive culture’. He was informed by Sir Digby Legard that the farmer on the wolds of the East Riding “every year has oeen accustomed to plough up a fresh part of his sheep walk, to take a crop or two, and then let it He fifteen or twenty years till the natural grass has again formed a kind of turf, but it will sometimes be forty years before the land is completely sodded over. This ruinous practice is but too common ; and where it has long prevailed, the farmer seldom has a three-fold increase®.” There were other cases where the two-field or three-field system was still in vogue; thus in the neighbourhood of Ecclesfield, in Hallamshire, the usual course was as follows : first fallow, second wheat, third clover, and fourth wheat®. This is obviously the two-field system, with the introduction of clover in place of every second fallowing. His comment is a sweeping condemnation of the early middle ages, “ This is very bad husbandry.” At Beverley® there was a similar modification of the two-field system, with the use of peas in place of clover. He notes the three-field system at Ecclesfield, first fallow, second wheat. third oats. but does not criticise it. He severly ~~ What, however, roused his strongest condemnation was Titses the extravagance of the ploughing? Near Woburn “they oloughind. oo four or five horses at length in their ploughs, and yet do no more than an acre a day. The reader will not forget 548 A.D. 1689 1776. 1 These were genuine survivals. The primitive character of English Agriculture n the seventeenth century, is shown from the nature of the arrangements which were transplanted to New England ; see the accounts of common field cultivation, ommon fencing, herding, etc., in Weeden, Economic and Social History of New England, 58. But these practices in the plantations might be to some extent revivals, rather than survivals, since the special conditions of the new country would make reversion to primitive practice advisable. 8 Northern Tour, 1. 7. 8 Vol. 1. p. 33. 4 Ib. mn. 14. $ Ib. 1. 126. 6 Ih. m. 1. 7 Ib. 1. 126. 8 A six weeks Tour through the Southern Counties. 298. 300.

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