Note 620 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE

S. P. D. Eliz., vol. cclxxxvi., Nos. 19 and 20: “He is a great taker of advantages. He granted a lease to his brother, who dying a year past, he sued his brother’s wife to overthrow the lease to the undoing of her and her children." For a strong expression of these views see Hist. MSS. Com., MSS. of Marquis of Salisbury, Part II., 1575, Nov. 20. Lord North to the Bishop of Ely: “My lord, it wilbe no pleasure for you to have hir Majestye and the Councell knowe howe wretchedly yowe live within and without your house, howe extremely covetous, how great a grazier, how marvellous a dayrye man, howe ritche a farmer, how grete an owner. It will not lyke yowe that the world knowe of your decayed houses, ... of the leases you pull violently from many, of the copyeholdes that yowe lawlesslye enter into, of the fre land that yowe wrongfully posese.... Yowe suffer no man to live longer under yowe than yowe lyke him.”