CONTENTS


CHAPTER I

Communistic Farming.--Growth of the Manor.--Early Prices.--The
Organization and Agriculture of the Manor


CHAPTER II

The Thirteenth Century.--The Manor at its Zenith, with Seeds of Decay
already visible.--Walter of Henley


CHAPTER III

The Fourteenth Century.--Decline of Agriculture.--The Black Death.--
Statute of Labourers


CHAPTER IV

How the Classes connected with the Land lived in the Middle Ages


CHAPTER V

The Break-up of the Manor.--Spread of Leases.--The Peasants'