[35] J. Norden, The Surveyor's Dialogue.
[36] Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane State.
[37] Gay, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. xvii., p. 587: “Hysterical and rhetorical complaint ... condemned by its very exaggeration.”
[38] Ashley, Economic History, vol. i. Part II., p. 286: “There were two periods of rapid change ... namely from c. 1470 to c. 1530, and again from about 1760 to 1830. After about 1530 the movement somewhat slackened.”
[39] See below, [Part III., chap. i.]
[40] Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., vol. xix. See also Gonner, Common Land and Inclosure, pp. 153–186. Professor Gonner is no doubt right in saying that “the view which regards inclosure ... as taking place mainly at two epochs, in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries respectively ... gives an almost entirely false presentation of what occurred.”
[41] Moore. The Crying Sin of England in not Caring for the Poor, 1653, and A Scripture Word against Enclosure, 1656. Moore’s pamphlets provoked rejoinders, viz., A Vindication of a Regulated Enclosure, by Joseph Lee, 1656, Considerations concerning Common Fields and Enclosures (1654, Pseudonismus), and A Vindication, of the Considerations concerning Common Fields and Enclosures, or a Rejoynder unto that Reply which Mr. Moore hath pretended to make unto those Considerations (1656, Pseudonismus).
[42] 4 Henry VII. c. 19.
[43] “For the chief destruccion of Townes and decaye of houses was before the begynnynge of the reign of King Henry the Seventh" (The defence of John Hales, quoted p. lxiii. of Miss Lamond’s edition of The Commonweal of this Realm of England).
[44] Camden Society, 1854, lii.