Note 656 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)
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The first sermon preached before King Edward the Sixth, March 8, 1549: “You landlords, you rent-raisers, I may say you step-lords, you unnatural lords, you have for your possession yearly too much. For that herebefore went for twenty or forty pounds by year ... now is let for fifty or an hundred pound by year.” See also Latimer, The Sermon of the Plough, January 18, 1548.