The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields

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Author

Slater, Gilbert, 1864-1938

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E-text prepared by MWS, Fay Dunn, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Subject

Agriculture -- England

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 55643

Release Date

September 27, 2017

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Note — THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY AND THE ENCLOSURE OF COMMON FIELDS
2. 2.THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY AND THE ENCLOSURE OF COMMON FIELDS
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.ILLUSTRATIONS.
8. 8.INTRODUCTION. THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY AND THE ENCLOSURE OF COMMON FIELDS.
9. 9.I. ENCLOSURE IN GENERAL.
10. 10.CHAPTER II. THE MERCIAN TYPE OF VILLAGE COMMUNITY. — Laxton, an Open Field Parish. — A Recent Enclosure—Castor and Ailesworth.
11. 11.CHAPTER III. THE WESSEX TYPE OF VILLAGE COMMUNITY. — Two Dorset Manors—Stratton and Grimstone. — Stratton Common Meadow. — Lear Croft Changeable Allotment next the Yard but one to Sparks. [5] — Water Gates Changeable Allotment No. 1. — Hole Rush—Changeable No. 1. — Hole Rush No. 2. — Hole Rush No. 3, or All Rush. — Hole Rush near the Parish, No. 5. — Hole Rush No. 4. — Hole Rush No 6, near the Parish. — Long Lands No. 2. — Long Lands No. 3. — Long Lands No. 1. — Long Lands No. 5. — Long Lands No. 4. — Changeable Allotments in the Great Horse Shoe. — The Three Patches are one part. Three Patches. — The Square Patch is joining the patch by the Mill Bars, may be called the fourth part of the “Great Horse Shoe,” it contains about 2 roods and 4 perches. — The Stake Weir is one part of the “Little Horse Shoe,” about 1 rood and 9 perches changeable. — The “Little Horse Shoe” changeable. The narrow strip and the strip round the corner next to Stake Weir patch is one part.
12. 12.CHAPTER IV. EXTENT OF EXISTING COMMON FIELDS. — Clothall (Herts). — Bygrave and Wallington. — Sutton (Northamptonshire). — Elmstone Hardwicke (Gloucester). — Ewelme (Oxfordshire).
13. 13.CHAPTER V. THE ISLE OF AXHOLME. — Soham. — Weston Zoyland.
14. 14.CHAPTER VI. SOME RECENT ENCLOSURES. — Upton St. Leonards (near Gloucester). — Totternhoe (Bedfordshire). — North and South Luffenham and Barrowden (Rutland). — Ham Field. — Merrow. — Steventon and the Berkshire Downs.
15. 15.CHAPTER VII. AGRICULTURE IN OPEN FIELD PARISHES A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
16. 16.CHAPTER VIII. NORFOLK AGRICULTURE.
17. 17.CHAPTER IX. 13 GEO. III. C. 81 .
18. 18.CHAPTER X. ENCLOSURE AND DEPOPULATION.
19. 19.CHAPTER XI. ENCLOSURE AND THE POOR.
20. 20.CHAPTER XII. THREE ACRES AND A COW.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIII STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF ENCLOSURE BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIV. ENCLOSURE OF COMMON FIELDS WITHOUT PARLIAMENTARY SANCTION. — Enclosure by Principal Landlord. — Enclosure by Yeomen. — Enclosure under the General Acts of 1886 and 1840.
23. 23.Enclosure in Corn-growing and Pastoral Districts.
24. 24.CHAPTER XV. RUN-RIG AND COMMON FIELD. — Every Year Lands.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVI. COMMON FIELDS IN NEW ENGLAND.
26. 26.CHAPTER XVII. THE PROGRESS OF ENCLOSURE WITHOUT PARLIAMENTARY SANCTION. — A. FROM 1845 ONWARDS. — B. BEFORE 1845. — Bedfordshire. — Northampton, Rutland, S.E. Warwick and Leicester. — Northamptonshire. — Leicestershire. — Rutland. — Warwick. — Cambridge and Huntingdon. — Huntingdon. — THE EASTERN COUNTIES. — Norfolk. — THE SOUTHERN MIDLANDS. — Middlesex. — Hertfordshire. — Buckingham. — Oxford. — THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. — Lincoln. — The East Riding of Yorkshire. — The North and West Ridings. — Nottinghamshire. — Derby. — Durham. — THE SOUTH-EAST OF ENGLAND. — Kent. — The Weald. — North Surrey. — The Sea Coast of Sussex. — Wessex. — “ The Western Chalk Hills. — THE SOUTH-WEST OF ENGLAND. — Gloucester and Worcester. — The Celtic Fringe. — Devon, Cornwall and West Somerset. — Braunton Great Field. — The Welsh Border.
27. 27.CHAPTER XVIII. THE RESULTS OF ENCLOSURE.
28. 28.APPENDIX A. Statistical Summary of Acts of Enclosure Enclosing Common Pasture and Waste only.
29. 29.APPENDIX B. PRIVATE ACTS ENCLOSING COMMON FIELDS. — BEDFORD. — BERKSHIRE. — BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. — CAMBRIDGE. — CHESHIRE. — CUMBERLAND. — DERBYSHIRE. — DORSET. — DURHAM. — ESSEX. — GLOUCESTER. — HAMPSHIRE. — HEREFORD. — HERTFORD. — HUNTINGDON. — LEICESTER. — LINCOLN. — MIDDLESEX. — MONMOUTH. — NORFOLK. — NORTHAMPTON. — NORTHUMBERLAND. — NOTTINGHAM. — OXFORD. — RUTLAND. — SHROPSHIRE. — SOMERSET. — STAFFORD. — SUFFOLK. — SURREY. — SUSSEX. — WARWICK. — WESTMORELAND. — WILTSHIRE. — WORCESTER. — YORKSHIRE, WEST RIDING. — YORKSHIRE, EAST RIDING. — YORKSHIRE, NORTH RIDING.
30. 30.APPENDIX C. LELAND’S ITINERARY. — Northampton, Leicester and Rutlandshires. — Warwick. — Buckingham. — Oxfordshire. — Lincoln. — Yorkshire, East Riding. — North and West Ridings. — Western Counties.
31. 31.APPENDIX D. — GENERAL LEGISLATION AFFECTING ENCLOSURE. — Statute of Merton (1235), c. 4 . — Statute of Westminster (1285), c. 46 . — ACTS FOR THE PROTECTION OF FORESTS. — 21 Edward IV. (1482), c. 7 . — 35 Henry VIII. (1544), c. 17 . — 13 Elizabeth (1571), c. 25 . — DEPOPULATION ACTS. — 4 Henry VII. (1489), c. 19 . — 6 Henry VIII. (1515), c. 5 . — 7 Henry VIII. (1516), c. 1 . — ACT FOR RESTRAINING SHEEP FARMING. — 25 Henry VIII. (1534), c. 13 . — DEPOPULATION ACTS. — 27 Henry VIII. (1536), c. 22 . — 27 Henry VIII. (1536), c. 28 . — CONFIRMATION OF STATUTE OF MERTON. — 3 & 4 Edward VI. (1550), c. 3 . — DEPOPULATION ACTS. — 5 & 6 Edward VI. (1552), c. 5 . — 2 & 3 Philip and Mary (1555–6), c. 2 . — 5 Elizabeth (1563), c. 2 . — ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF COTTAGERS’ HOLDINGS AND RIGHTS OF COMMON. — 31 Elizabeth (1589), c. 7 . — DEPOPULATION ACTS. — 39 Elizabeth (1597), c. 1 . — 39 Elizabeth (1597), c. 2 . — AN ENCLOSURE ACT. — 4 James I. c. 11 . — ACTS FOR IMPROVING THE CULTIVATION OF COMMON FIELDS. — 13 George III. (1773), c. 81 . — 41 George III. (1801), c. 20 . — ACTS FOR FACILITATING ENCLOSURE. — 41 George III. (1801), c. 109 . — 1 & 2 George IV. (1821), c. 23 . — 1 & 2 William IV. (1831), c. 42 . — 4 & 5 William IV. (1834), c. 30 . — 6 & 7 William IV. (1836), c. 115 . — 3 & 4 Vict. (1840), c. 31 .
32. 32.APPENDIX E. A NORFOLK OPEN FIELD PARISH.
33. 33.INDEX.
34. 34.The LONDON SCHOOL of ECONOMICS and POLITICAL SCIENCE
35. 35.NEW WORK BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB.
36. 36.OTHER WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB.
37. 37.STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. — Transcriber’s Note

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