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The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields

Note 47 — Chapter X · ENCLOSURE AND DEPOPULATION.

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According to the “Country Gentleman’s” calculations, the gross produce of the 1800 acres of common field and 200 acres of common pasture would be before enclosure £1419 8s., and after, £3000, which agrees very closely with the “Country Farmer’s” statement, the absolute amounts being greater, the ratio between them practically identical.

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