The Enclosure and Redistribution of Our LandClarendon Press, 1920 - 334 pagina's |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
1700 to recent acres agricultural labourers allotments amount appears arable fields arable land average award Black Death Board of Agriculture Cambridgeshire cattle Celia Fiennes cent commissioners common fields common or waste common pasture common rights copyholders corn cost cottages cows crops cultivated demesne depopulation Domesday early eighteenth century enclosed by Act Enclosure Act England English expenses farmers fences field system folkland freeholders gebur Gonner grass hedges Herefordshire holders improvement increase industry labour landlords landowners large number leaseholder leases Leicestershire lieu lord manor meadows ment Norfolk number of small open fields Oxfordshire parish Parliament period plough poor profit proprietors quantity rent Report rights of common rural says sheep sixteenth century Slater small holdings small owner statute Statute of Merton strips surveyors tenants tenure thegn tillage tithe unenclosed usually village villeins virgate wages waste lands wheat wool yardland
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Pagina 322 - Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please; Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go look within, and ask if peace be there; If peace be his — that drooping weary sire, Or theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire; Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th
Pagina 85 - Enclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land (which could not be manured without people and families) was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen; and tenancies for years, lives, and at will (whereupon much of the yeomanry lived) were turned into demesnes.
Pagina 322 - Go then! and see them rising with the sun, Through a long course of daily toil to run; See them beneath the dog-star's raging heat, When the knees tremble and the temples beat ; Behold them, leaning on their scythes, look o'er The labour past, and toils to come explore; See them alternate suns and showers engage, And hoard up aches and anguish for their age...
Pagina 322 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.
Pagina 138 - Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand.
Pagina 91 - We heartily pray thee, to send thy holy Spirit into the hearts of them that possess the grounds, pastures, and dwelling places of the earth, that they remembering themselves to be thy tenants, may not rack and stretch out the rents of their houses and lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines and incomes after the manner of covetous worldlings...
Pagina 138 - At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five and twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields. Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered there by thousands.
Pagina 87 - ... and invented ways and means how they might accumulate and gather together into few hands, as well great multitude of farms as great plenty of cattle, and in especial, sheep...
Pagina 172 - All that is requisite is a warm, comfortable, plain room for the poor inhabitants to eat their morsel in, an oven to bake their bread, a little receptacle for their small beer and provisions and two wholesome lodging apartments, one for the man and his wife and another for his children.
Pagina 96 - We pray that copyhold land that is unreasonably rented may go as it did in the first year of King Henry VII and that at the death of a tenant or...