[273] Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (New Series), xix. 127.
[274] Ibid. 130.
[275] See article in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (New Series), xix.
[276] Macaulay, History of England, ch. iii.
[277] Quarterly Journal of Economics, xvii. 587. Considering that the legislature of the sixteenth century was against enclosure and depopulation, it is hard to understand 31 Eliz., c. 7, which forbade cottages to be erected unless 4 acres of land were attached thereto, in order to avoid the great inconvenience caused by the 'buyldinge of great nombers and multitude of cottages, which are daylie more and more increased in many partes of this realme'. How was it that cottages had increased so much in rural districts, which are of course alluded to, in spite of enclosure?
[278] Harwood, Erdeswick.
[279] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 44.
[280] Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, i. 187.
[281] General View of Hunts., p. 8.
[282] General View of Lincoln, p. 29.