[63] The Works of William Laud, D.D., ed. Wm. Scott, vol. i, 1847, p. 6.
[64] Ibid., p. 64.
[65] Ibid., pp. 89, 138.
[66] Ibid., p. 167.
[67] Ibid., pp. 28-9.
[68] Gonner, Common Land and Enclosure, 1912, pp. 166-7. For the activity of the Government from 1629 to 1640, see Tawney, The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century, pp. 376, 391, and E. M. Leonard, The Inclosure of Common Fields in the Seventeenth Century, in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., N.S., vol. xix, pp. 101 seqq.
[69] Letter to Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Warden of All Souls (in Laud’s Works, vol. vi, pt. ii, p. 520): “One thing more I must tell you, that, though I did you this favour, to make stay of the hearing till your return, yet for the business itself, I can show you none; partly because I am a great hater of depopulations in any kind, as being one of the greatest mischiefs in this kingdom, and of very ill example from a college, or college tenant”; Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, bk. i, par. 204.
[70] S.P.D. Chas. I, vol. ccccxcix, no. 10 (printed in Tawney, The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century, pp. 420-1); and Lords’ Journals, vol. vi, p. 468b (March 13, 1643-4), Articles against Laud: “Then Mr. Talbot upon oath deposed how the Archbishop did oppose the law in the business of inclosures and depopulations; how, when the law was desired to be pleaded for the right of land, he bid them ‘Go plead law in inferior Courts, they should not plead it before him’; and that the Archbishop did fine him for that business two hundred pounds for using the property of his freehold, and would not suffer the law to be pleaded.”
[71] Leonard, The Early History of English Poor Relief, pp. 150-64; Unwin, Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 1904, pp. 142-7.
[72] R. R. Reid, The King’s Council in the North, 1921, pp. 412, 413 n.