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Title: The agrarian problem in the sixteenth century
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1880-1962
Subjects: Land tenure Peasants Agriculture
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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H^Tio(^Q ^ABq>rag3^j:q;i;^M.9j\(uopuoio0^i-i^3QJ0sueiA ) ^. A VI. MAP OF THE MANOR OP WHADBOROUGHIN LEICESTERSHIRE (l620.) Hote(i) There has been comers/on oF Arable to Pasture(sometimes arable)(i\)There hd) been enclosure fIVhathoroughe^reat Close contains \07ac. 3ro.20p.)(\\()There hai oeen depopulationisee the placewhere th town of Whatborou^he stood)The Map^jvesjn fact, a complete picture of the finalresult of enclosure carried out on a large scale Farpurposes of Pasture Farming by a single large grazier
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Lrngmap.s■ Oreen &.C9London.NewYork, Bo7aba)-, & Calcutta THE NEW RURAL ECONOMY 223 consolidation has been followed by enclosure, conversionto pasture and depopulation. Between the state of thingson map No. III. and that on map No. VI. there isthe greatest possible difference. Yet there is no reason todoubt that Whadborough had once been an open field villagewith tenants who were mainly engaged in tillage. MapNos. IV., v., and I. are, as it were, the intervening chapterswhich join the preface to the conclusion. Occasionally onecan see the process of consolidation, which was the necessarypreliminary of enclosure, actually taking place. At Harrie-sham,^ in Kent, the parson held 3 acres of glebe land in twa^pieces, one of them lying in the middle of a field belongingto another tenant, who ploughed up its boundaries andadded it to his own land. Accordingly, to prevent un-certainty in the future, the owner of the field and the parsonexecuted a deed by which the latter surrendered

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