[25] Proclamation as before: “Of late by thynclosinge of landes and erable grounds, many have byn drevyn to extreme povertie, insomuche that wheareas in tyme past, tenne, twentie, yea in some places C. or CC. Chrysten people hathe byn inhabytynge ... nowe ther is nothynge kept but sheepe and bullocks. All that lande, whiche heretofore was tilled and occupied by so many men, is nowe gotten by insaciable gredyness of mynde into one or two men’s handes, and scarcely dwelled upon with one poore shepherd.”
[26] “There be a manie a M cottagers in England, which, havinge no land to live of theire owne but their handie labours, and some refreshinge upon the said commons, yf they were sodenly thrust out from that commoditie might make a great tumult and discorde in the commonwealth” (Commonweal of England, pp. 49–50).
[27] See below, pp. [341–344].
[28] Leadam, Domesday of Enclosures.
[29] Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., vol. xiv. and vol. xvii.; Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. xvii. See also Gonner, Common Land and Inclosure, pp. 132–152.
[30] Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. xix. See below, [pp. 287–297.]
[31] Johnson, The Disappearance of the Small Landowner, p. 40.
[32] See below, pp. [218–221] and [237–253].
[33] Nasse, The Land Community of the Middle Ages (translated for the Cobden Club by Colonel Ouvry, 1871), pp. 81–91: “With regard to the proper agricultural character of these movements they are represented commonly as having been caused by an exclusively pure pasture husbandry, which expelled the tillage husbandman. Different circumstances, however, and witnesses show us closely that this, for the most part, was not the case.” The discussion between Mr. Leadam and Professor Gay is contained in the Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., New Series, vol. xiv. See also Miss Davenport, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. xi., and below, pp. 223–228.
[34] Elizabethan England, edited by Lothrop Withington, with introduction by F.J. Furnivall, p. 119.