Note 268 — SECTION I (continued 2)
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See Clarendon, History of the Rebellion I, 204.
"And the revenue of too many of the Court consisted principally in enclosures, and improvements of that nature, which he [i.e., Laud], still opposed passionately except they were founded upon law; and then, if it would bring profit to the King, how old and obsolete soever the law was, he thought he might justly advise the prosecution. And so he did a little too much countenance the Commission for Depopulation, which brought much charge and trouble upon the people, which was likewise cast upon his account."