Note 737 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)

Gardiner, History of England, 1603–1642, vol. viii., p. 78. Compare the Instructions for the President and Council of the North, 1603 (Prothero, Statutes and Constitutional Documents, 1558–1625, pp. 363–378), Article XXVIII.: “Further our pleasure is that the said Lord P. and Council shall from time to time make diligent and effectual inquisition of the wrongful taking in of commons and other grounds and the decay of tillage and of towns or houses of husbandry contrary to the laws, ... and leaving all respect and affection apart they shall take such order for redress of enormities used in the same as the poor people be not oppressed and forced to go begging ... and ... if they find any notorious malefactor in this behalf of any great wealth, cause the extremity of the law to be executed against him publicly.”