Note 216 — Chapter III · THE PEASANTRY (continued)

Quoted by Slater, The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields, pp. 58–59. He remarks “a labourer ... begins with one ‘land,’ then takes a second, a third, and so on,” and quotes Mr. Haggard’s statement that the “Isle of Axholme ... is one of the few places ... in England ... truly prosperous in an agricultural sense.”