Note 658 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)

The proclamation appointing the Commission is printed by Strype, op. cit., vol. ii., Book I., chap. ii. The operative part of it runs: “And therefore, He ... hath appointed, according to the said acts and proclamations, a view and inquiry to be made of all such as contrary to the said acts and godly ordinances have made enclosures and pasture of that which was arable ground, or let any house, tenement, or mease decay or fall down, or done anything contrary of the good and wholesome articles contained in the said acts.” In my account of the situation under Somerset I have followed the documents printed by Strype, and the appendix to Miss Lamond's introduction to The Commonweal of this Realm of England.