Note 427 — Chapter II · THE REACTION OF THE AGRARIAN CHANGES ON THE PEASANTRY

Topographer and Genealogist, vol. i.—Rolleston (Stafford): “The said manor is ... well inhabited with divers honest men, whose trade of lyvinge is onlie by husbandry ... and have no large pastures or severall closes ... but have been alwaie accustomed to have their cattle and sometyme their ploughe beasts pastured in the Queen's Majestie’s Park of Rolleston, for xxd., the stage ... without which aide and help they were neither able to maintain hospitallitie nor tyllage; and nowe of late yeares the fermor of the herbage hath advanced the stage to 6s. 8d., and yet the Quene’s Majesties rent nothing increased.”