There was also the possibility that enclosure, even when for purposes of arable farming, might be carried out unfairly and to the detriment of the poorer tenants. This was often the case in the eighteenth century, and was admitted even by Tusser : " The... The Economic History of England - Page 123by Ephraim Lipson - 1915Full view - About this book
| Thomas Tusser - 1812 - 430 pages
...(as it is,) Why gather they nothing of this ? Country ana 29. The poor at enclosures do (c) grutch ', Because of abuses that fall ; Lest some man should have but too much, And some again nothing at all. If order might therein be found ; What were to the severall ground... | |
| Robert Southey - 1831 - 1038 pages
...same be true (ая it is,) Why gather they notliing of this ? 9?. The poor at enclosures do grutch, Because of abuses that fall ; Lest some man should have but too much, And some again nothing at all. If order might therein be found . What were to the severall ground... | |
| Thomas Edward Scrutton - 1887 - 202 pages
...the commoners who even then were protesting against enclosures:— "The poor at enclosing do grudge, Because of abuses that fall; Lest some man should have but too much, And some again nothing at all. If order might therein be found What were to the general ground.... | |
| Edward Potts Cheyney - 1895 - 138 pages
...If this same be true (as it is) why gather they nothing of this ; The poor at inclosure do grutch, because of abuses that fall, Lest some man should have but too much, and some again nothing at all. If order might therein be found, what were to the several ground."... | |
| 1895 - 130 pages
...If this same be true (as it is) why gather they nothing of this ; The poor at inclosure do grutch, because of abuses that fall, Lest some man should have but too much, and some again nothing at all. If order might therein be found, what were to the several ground."... | |
| Ephraim Lipson - 1915 - 572 pages
...which the same men may use and occupy " 2. The author of A Discourse of the Common Weal of this (iij.) The Realm of England bore similar testimony to the...Commission covering a period of thirty years have been preserved4, but their evidence is not easily interpreted. Sometimes the decay 1 Viet. County Hist.... | |
| 350 pages
...where enclosure is most? But he was fair-minded enough to admit that The poor at enclosing do grutch, Because of abuses that fall, Lest some man should have but too much, And some again nothing at all. If you rearranged fields or commons, the grasping man might come... | |
| Thomas Edward Scrutton - 1887 - 240 pages
...commoners who even then were protesting against enclosures : — . " The poor at enclosing do grudge, Because of abuses that fall ; Lest some man should have but too much, And some again nothing at all. If order might therein be found What were to the general ground.... | |
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