Reformation to Industrial Revolution, 1530-1780 |
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Adam Smith agricultural army Bank of England became bishops capital capitalist cent Charles church civil clothing industry coal colonies commercial Company cotton court crown demand dissenters domestic worker Dutch early seventeenth century East India economic effect employers enclosure England especially excise export factories feudal foreign policy France freeholders gentlemen gentry helped historians home market House of Commons important increased India Industrial Revolution interregnum investment Ireland James king labour Lancashire landlords landowners London Lord manufactures ment monarchy monied interest monopoly Navigation Acts oligarchy parish Parliament pauper peace period political poor population price revolution production profits prosperity protection Puritan radical Reformation reign religion revenue rise royal sixteenth century slave trade social society South Sea Bubble South Sea Company Statute of Artificers taxation thought tion Tory towns Tudor wage-labourers wages Walpole wealth West Whig wool workers wrote