Note 487 — Chapter II · THE REACTION OF THE AGRARIAN CHANGES ON THE PEASANTRY

Moore, The Crying Sin of England in not Caring for the Poor: “And now alas, saith the poor cottier, there is no work for me, I must go where I may get my living. And hence it comes to pass that the open fielden towns have above double the number of cottiers they had wont to have, so that they cannot live one by another, and so put the fielden towns to vast expense, in caring for these poor that these enclosures have made.”