[5] See e.g. Records of the Borough of Reading, vol ii. pp. 36, 94, 156; vol. iii., 131, and those of Leicester, Norwich, Nottingham, and Southampton, passim; also below, pp. 275–277.
[6] “Mr. Secretary Cecil said, ... If we debar tillage, we give scope to the Depopulator, and then, if the poor being thrust out of their houses go to dwell with others, straight we catch them with the Statute of Inmates; if they wander abroad, they are within the danger of the Statute of the Poor to be whipt” (D'Ewes' Journal of the House of Commons, 1601, pp. 674–675).
[8] E. E. T. S., England in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, Part II.: “A Dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Thomas Lupset, Lecturer in Rhetoric at Oxford, by Thomas Starkey, Chaplain to the King,” edited by J.M. Cowper (date of composition about 1538).
[9] E. E. T. S., as above, Part I. (Appendix). The Pleasant Poesye of Princelie Practise, by Sir William Forest (date of composition 1548).
[10] The Commonweal of this Realm of England, edited by Elizabeth Lamond (date of composition 1549; the author was almost certainly John Hales).
[11] Powell, Depopulation Arraigned, 1636.
[12] The Crying Sin of England in not Caring for the Poor, wherein Enclosure such as doth unpeople Towns and Common Fields is Arraigned, Convicted, and Condemned by the Word of God, by John Moore, Minister of Knaptoft, in Leicestershire, 1653.
[13] Fitzherbert, Boke of Husbandry, 1534. Surveyinge, 1539.
[14] Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Husbandry.