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IT is difficult to see how a better selection of material than this could well have been made. In three volumes the editors give us documents from every conceivable source, chroniclers, pamphleteers, close rolls, court records, which illustrate every aspect of economic life in the changing epoch of Tudor England. They are not of interest to the economic historian alone; the student of literature and of social life will find much to interest him. The English itself is, often enough, of that stately texture which reached its highest point in the stiff splendour of Sir Thomas Browne; and ballads like "Nowe a Dayes," aixi Bastards epigrams, are of the very heart of a great folk-thought. Special attention should be directed to the important, and hitherto unpublished, " Polices to reduce this Realme of England unto a Prosperous wealthe and Estate," which is one of those minor discoveries as noteworthy to reader as to editor. It is a pity that the plan of the series did not permit of an ample introduction. One would have given much to know the editorial view of a period they have illuminated so wisely.
Tudor Economic Documents: being Select Documents illustrating the Economic and Social History of Tudor England.
R. H.
Tawney
Eileen
Power
Edited by. (University of London Historical Series, No. 4.) In 3 vols. Vol. 1: Agriculture and Industry. Pp. xiii + 383. Vol. 2: Commerce, Finance and the Poor Law. Pp. ix + 369. Vol. 3: Pamphlets, Memoranda and Literary Extracts. Pp. viii + 486. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924.) 15s. net each.
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L., H. Tudor Economic Documents: being Select Documents illustrating the Economic and Social History of Tudor England. Nature 116, 205 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116205a0
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