Note 709 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)

e.g. Paget’s letter to Somerset, July 7, 1549 (Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials). Neville, De furoribus Norfolcensium Ketto Duce, 1575. The words put into the mouths of the landed gentry by Crowley in The Way to Wealth (E. E. T. S.) no doubt represent their attitude fairly: “Nowe if I should demand of the gredie cormoraunts what they thinke should be the cause of sedition, they would saie, 'The paisent knaves be too welthy, provender pricketh them. They knowe no obedience, they regard no lawes, they would have no gentlemen, they would have all men like themselves, they would have all things commune. They would not have us master of that which is our owne. They will appoint us what rent we shall take for our grounds.... They will caste down our parkes and lay our pastures open.... They wyll compel the Kyng to graunt theyr requests.... We wyll tech them to know theyr betters, and because they would have all in common we will leave them nothing.'”