The English Craft Gilds and the Government an Examination of the Accepted Theory Regarding the Decay of the Craft Gilds

Presents the results of an investigation into the relations between the English government and medieval craft guilds, as shown in a series of statutes enacted in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that are believed to have influenced the decay of the English craft guilds. Preface Contents Introduction Chapter I. Policy of the Government with Reference to Craft Gilds Chapter II. The Policy of the EarlyTtudors toward Craft Gilds Chapter III. Later Tudor Policy as a Factor in the Decay of Craft Gilds Chapter IV. English Economic Policy in the Middle Ages Bibliography