Note 628 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE

6 Henry VIII., c. 5, and 7 Henry VIII., c. 1. In parishes “whereof the more part was or were used and occupied to tillage and husbandry,” any person who “shall decay a town, a hamlet, a house of husbandry, or convert tillage into pasture,” and has not “within one yeere next after such wylfull decaye reedifyed and made ageyn mete and convenyent for people to dwell and inhabyte the same ... and therein to exercyse husbandry and tillage,” forfeits one half of his land to the lord of the manor. Land converted to pasture must be tilled “after the maner and usage of the countrey where the seyd land lyeth.”