[682] Atkinson, North Riding Quarter Sessions, vol. i. pp. 106, 108, 111, 122. The last presentment runs: “Will Marwood of Busby, gentn, for decaying of xxx acres of arable land or thereabouts, and converting of xxx acres of arable land or thereabouts, the same, from tillage into pasture or meadow, and tilled nothing in the same parish in lieu thereof, contrary, etc.”
[683] Leonard, Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., vol. xix.
[684] Leonard, Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., vol. xix.
[685] Ingleby, Shakespeare and the Welcombe Enclosures.
[686] S. P. D. J., I., vol. cxxiv., December 20, 1621, and S. P. D., Ch. i. cliii., October 2, 1623.
[687] Leonard, Trans. Royal Hist. Society, vol. xix.
[688] Ibid.
[689] For the ploughing up of pasture, S. P. D., Ch. I. vol. cccciv. 142, and vol. cccclxxv. 72; for Lord Saye and Sele, vol. ccclxii. 60, 1637; order of Council that the Attorney-General should forthwith proceed by information in the Star Chamber against Viscount Saye and Sele for depopulation and conversion of houses and lands.
[690] J. Moore, A Target for Tillage: “My purpose is not here to plead for ... any other idle drones and wretched atheists.... All these I acknowledge to be the greatest wasters and spoylers of our country, worse by many degrees than any depopulators, oppressors, and decayors of villages.... All these I know abhorre the plough, and are enemies to the State; who yet (I confesse) in their high talke do justify tillage and will be ready no doubt to reforme the decay thereof with spade and pickaxe." (The copy of this pamphlet which I have seen is dated 1611. I have ventured to assume that this is a misprint, and that it should be placed with John Moore’s other pamphlets on enclosure, 1653–1656.)
[691] Leonard, Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., vol. xix.