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The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields

Note 51 — Chapter X · ENCLOSURE AND DEPOPULATION.

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Riots may occur on the enclosure of waste, where the enclosed waste gave a livelihood to a considerable specialised population, as in Hatfield Chase and the Fens. See Dr. Cunningham’s “Growth of English Industry and Commerce,” Vol. II., pp. 187, 188.

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