A Students Manual of English Constitutional History
The book A Students Manual of English Constitutional History was written by author Medley, D. J. (Dudley Julius), 1861-1953 Here you can read free online of A Students Manual of English Constitutional History book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Students Manual of English Constitutional History a good or bad book?
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Neither were these among the needy classes. ' The vagrancy of the times did not imply the distress of the labourers, but their prosperity. The scarcity of labour allowed of high wages, and the vagrant labourer of the time seems never to have been satisfied, but always wandering in search of still higher 1 Toynbee, wages V The class of the really destitute, then, was very small. I Rw>h? al ^ must ^ ave cons i ste d merely, in the towns, of craftsmen who tion, p. 97. Could not procure admission i...nto a gild ; and in the country, of the small, though growing, class of free but landless labourers. The Statute, or rather Ordinance, of Labourers (1349) which first deals comprehensively with this vagrancy, has nothing to do with the maintenance of the poor. It was called for by that restlessness of the ' valiant labourer ' which resulted from the scarcity of labour after the Black Death, and thus its object was to deal with the able-bodied vagrant by forbidding the bestowal of alms, fixing his wages, and preventing him from migrating.
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