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Excerpt from History of the English Landed Interest: Its Customs Laws and Agriculture Effects of the sovereign's character on the rural populations - The Rebellion of Wat the Tyler - Its causes, history, and termina tion - Preponderance of national taxation on land and labour - Hidage and Danegeld replaced by scutage and carucage Political representation not necessarily a result of liability to taxation - The tithe dues - The maintenance of the poor - The various grades of poverty - Monastic poor relief funds - The monks mere agents for the national relief funds, and couse quent national control over monastic endowments - Penal mea sures against culpable poverty - The land twice charged for the maintenance of the nation's pauper class - The effects of the scarcity of rural labour on the letting of farms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.