The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . attributed to inclosures, to the increase of pasture, to higherrents;—few saw the inevitable effects of the debasement of the advance of all vendible things was imequal. The advance of wages,which could not depend upon the price of food or other necessaries, wasnecessarily disproportionate. The wretched workmen,—clothiers of thewest and agriculturists of the east,—rushed into insurrections, and wereslaughtered by thousands. It has been usual to attribute the ris
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . attributed to inclosures, to the increase of pasture, to higherrents;—few saw the inevitable effects of the debasement of the advance of all vendible things was imequal. The advance of wages,which could not depend upon the price of food or other necessaries, wasnecessarily disproportionate. The wretched workmen,—clothiers of thewest and agriculturists of the east,—rushed into insurrections, and wereslaughtered by thousands. It has been usual to attribute the rise of rentsand of the price of commodities at this period, to the influx of silver fromthe American mines. But the effect of that increase of the metallic currencyof Europe was undoubtedly much more gradual. The evil course of thegovernments of Henry YIII. and Edward VI. was remedied under that ofElizabeth, upon whose tomb was inscribed, as one of the glories of her reign, Moneta injustum valorem reducfa. f Tytler, vol. i. p. 380. + See Sir R. Peels speech on Resumption of Cash Payments, Hansard, vol. xl. p. ShilUog of Edward VI.
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