Note 717 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)
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For the debates of 1597 and 1601 see D'Ewes' Journal, pp. 551 and 674 ff.: a special exemption from the operations of the Act was allowed to a landlord who had got letters patent authorising him to enclose 340 acres “too moist and soft and altogether unfit for tillage.”