  | PAGE | | Introduction | 1 | | | PART I.—THE SMALL LANDHOLDER | | | CHAP. | | I. The Rural Population— | | (a) The Classes of Landholders | 19 | | (b) The Freeholders | 27 | | (c) The Customary Tenants | 19 | | | II. The Peasantry— | | (a) The Variety of Conditions | 55 | | (b) The Consolidation of Peasant Holdings | 57 | | (c) The Growth of a Land Market among the Peasants | 72 | | | III. The Peasantry (continued)— | | (d) The Economic Environment of the Small Cultivator | 98 | | | IV. The Peasantry (continued)— | | (e) Signs of Change | 136 | | (f) The Growth of Competitive Rents on New Allotments | 139 | | (g) The Progress of Enclosure among the Peasantry | 147 | | | PART II.—THE TRANSITION TO CAPITALIST AGRICULTURE | | | I. The New Rural Economy— | | (a) Motives and Causes | 177 | | (b) The Growth of the Large Leasehold Farm | 200 | | (c) Enclosure and Conversion by the Manorial Authorities | 213 | | | II. The Reaction of the Agrarian Changes on the Peasantry— | | (a) The Removing of Landmarks | 231 | | (b) The Struggle for the Commons | 237 | | (c) The Engrossing of Holdings and Displacement | 253 | | (d) The Agrarian Changes and the Poor Law | 266 | | | III. The Question of Tenant Right— | THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
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