Chapter I: Front Matter

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n -> 'ɳ',
u -> 'ư',
t -> 'ȶ',
r -> 'ɽ'
v -> 'ⱱ'

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which have been denoted by { } brackets: e.g., "Ma{ties}"

BURT FRANKLIN RESEARCH & SOURCE WORKS SERIES # 13

THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM IN THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY

THE
AGRARIAN PROBLEM
IN THE SIXTEENTH
CENTURY

BY

R.H. TAWNEY

"_And if the whole people be landlords, or hold the Lands so
divided among them, that no one Man, or number of Men,
within the Compass of the Few or Aristocracy, overbalance
them, the Empire (without the interposition of force) is a
Commonwealth._"--HARRINGTON, _Oceana_.

_WITH 6 MAPS_

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