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The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

Note 340 — Chapter I · THE NEW RURAL ECONOMY

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See the Paston Letters, passim; and also the account given in Hist. MSS. Com., Cd. 5567 (Report on the MSS. of Lord Middleton), 142–145, of the marvellous doings of Sir Gylles Strangways in Dorsetshire as late as 1539; pp. 115–117 contain a similar case of private warfare from the year 1477.

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