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English Local Government: Statutory Authorities for Special Purposes,
1922.
INDUSTRY. George Unwin, Industrial Organization in the Six-
teenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 1904, is valuable, although some
of its conclusions can no longer be accepted. There are a
number of works on separate industries: E. Lipson, The History
of the Woollen and Worsted Industries, 1921; Herbert Heaton, The
Yorkshire Woollen and Worsted Industries, 1920; Henry Hamilton,
The English Copper and Brass Industries, 1926; A. P. Wads worth
and Julia de L, Mann, Industrial Lancashire and the Cotton Indsutry,
1931; and, best of all, J. U. Nef, The Rise of the British Coal
Industry, 2 vols., 1932.
GILDS. Several books deal with them, but for this period
Stella Kramer, The English Craft Gilds, 1927, is the most signi-
ficant. A good article based on this work is T. H. Marshall,
'Capitalism and the Decline of the English Gilds', in Cambridge
Historical Journal, iii.
TAXATION AND FINANCE. Stephen Dowell, A History of Taxa-
tion and Taxes in England, 4 vols., 1884, *s thc on^y comprehensive
study at all modern, but badly needs revision. Frederick G.
Dietz, English Public Finance, 1558-1641, 1932, is a recent treat-
ment, whose defects are mainly due to an unavoidable cause,
the disappearance of documents. M. P. Ashley, Financial and
Commercial Policies under the Cromwellian Protectorate, 1934, is very
useful though not exhaustive. To fill the gap left by these two
monographs, there is W. O. Scroggs, 'English Finance under the
Long Parliament*, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, xxi. Only
one tax of the period has received a special study: M. D. Gordon,
'The Collection of Ship Money in the Reign of Charles F, in
Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc., 3rd ser., iv. W. Kennedy, English Taxa-
tion, 1640-1^9: An Essay on Policy and Opinion, 1913, is not very
satisfactory for this period. R. D. Richards, The Early History
of Banking in England, 1929, sets forth the results of wide research
in a field about which little has hitherto been known. E. M.
Leonard, The Early History of English Poor Relief, 1900, embodies
much research, although its main conclusions may be chal-
lenged. W. H. Price, English Patents of Monopoly, 1913, is a
serviceable study of the legal aspects of a subject of great impor-
tance in this period.
TRADE. W. R. Scott, The Constitution and Finance of English,
Scottish, and Irish Joint-Stock Companies to 1720, 3 vols., 1910-12,