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In 'The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields' by Gilbert Slater, the author meticulously dissects the impact of enclosure acts on the traditiona

Far more important from a broad national point of view, is the enclosure of common fields--the enclosure, that is, of land previously cultivated according to a

Excerpt from The English Peasantry, and the Enclosure of Common Fields The investigations embodied in this book were begun in 1894, on the suggestion of Mr. Gra