Index of Persons

• Abbey of St. Albans, the, improvement of wastes by, 87

• Abbot of Cerne, the, agreement by to enclose, 181

• " Glastonbury, the, agreement by to enclose, 181

• " Malmesbury, the, agreement by to enclose, 180–181

• " Peterborough, the, dispute of with copyholders, 360

• " St. Peter's, Gloucester, the, agreement by to enclose, 181

• All Souls College—
• enclosing on estates of, 156
• scale of landholding, 69–70
• maps of, 163, 172, 221, 222, 223
• petition of in Chancery, 235–236

• Ashley, Professor W.J.—
• views of as to date of enclosing movement, 11
• " " " legal position of copyholders, 290–292

• Aske, Robert—
• evidence of as to agrarian grievances, 319
• " " " monastic economy, 383
• Pilgrimage of Grace led by, 134, 319

• Bacon, Francis—
• bills against depopulation introduced by, 387
• history of King Henry VII. by quoted, 28, 346
• ideal of government of, 398
• use of word “yeoman” by, 28
• views as to pauperism of, 274

• Bath, the Earl of, property of villeins seized by, 42–43

• Becon, views of as to agrarian changes, 6, 7

• Bell, William, commons enclosed by, 373

• Berkeley, Lord Thomas, agreement by to enclose, 181

• Bolen, Sir William, enclosing by, 380

• Bracton—
• on assize of novel disseisin, 122
• villeinage, 292

• Brudenell, Lord, fine imposed on for enclosing, 391

• Buckingham, the Duke of—
• enclosing by, 380
• park made by, 148

• Burleigh, Lord, advice of to Queen Elizabeth, 341

• Cade, Jack, 194

• Captain Pouch, part played by in revolt of 1607, 318

• Cecil, Sir Robert—
• views of on poor law, 273–274
• " " military importance of ploughmen, 343
• " " Statute of Inmates, 4, 279

• Cecil, Sir William, letter to concerning Somerset’s policy, 347–348, 368

• Celys, the, wool purchased by, 196

• Charles I., agrarian policy of government of, 391, 398, 399

• Clarkson—
• Northumbrian manors surveyed by, 5
• views of as to equal use of commons, 235
• " " " importance of commons, 160
• " " " importance of numerous tenantry, 189–190

• Cobbett, view of as to social effects of reformation, 382

• Coke, Sir Edward—
• petition of tenants to, 412–413
• reports of, 247
• view of as to acts against depopulation, 379
• " " " copyholders, 289, 291
• " " " border tenure, 299
• " " " Statute of Merton, 248

• Combe, William, enclosing by, 375

• Cotton, Sir J., enclosing by, 380

• Coventry, Lord, address of to Judges of Assize, 398

• Cromwell, Thomas—
• letter of to Henry VIII., 360–361
• " " Rich, 361
• responsibility of for agrarian distress, 360
• tenants protected by, 361

• Crowley—
• “Information and Petition against the Oppressors of the Poor Commons" by, 365–366
• views of as to agrarian changes, 6, 179
• " " " attitude of landlords, 384
• " " " excessive fines and rents, 307

• Cunningham, Dr., account of origin of corn laws, 3

• Cushman, Robert, remarks of on emigration, 270

• Danbury, Lord, enclosing by, 380

• Darcy, Lord—
• dispute of with tenants, 380
• letter to from Commons of Westmoreland, 322

• Darrell, William, complaints of tenants against, 374

• Davenport, Miss—
• evidence as to leasing of demesne, 209
• " " " progress of pasture-farming, 224

• Dawney, Sir John, ordered to reinstate tenants, 361

• De Malynes, Gerard, views of as to effect of rise in prices, 199–200

• Defoe, “Giving Alms no Charity" by, 105

• Delavale, Joshua—
• account of depopulation at Hartley by, 258
• “Seaton Delavale,” 257

• Delavale, Robert, enclosing and depopulation carried out by, 192, 257–258

• Derby, the Earl of, eviction of tenants by, 361

• Durham, the Dean of, account of depopulation by, 261

• Edward VI.—
• agrarian policy in reign of, 352, 362–372
• Book of Private Prayer of quoted, 20
• Remains of quoted, 6

• Elizabeth, agrarian policy in reign of, 14, 372–374

• Ely, the Bishop of, letter of Lord North to, 349

• Englefield, Sir Francis, enclosing by, 148, 251–252

• Everard, diggers led by, 321

• Firth, The House of Lords during the Civil War by, 38

• Fitzherbert—
• Book of Husbandry and Surveying by, 5
• " " " on commons, 242
• " " " borrowing, 109
• " " " duty of housewives, 112
• " " " enclosing, 151
• Surveying on commons, 249
• " " copyholders, 288–289
• " " enclosing, 150, 152
• " " land taken from demesne or waste, 285
• " " rack-renting, 150

• Fortescue—
• On the Governance of England by, quoted as to fiscal importance, 346
• " " " " " prosperity of peasants, 98, 133

• Fowler, Dr. G.H., evidence of as to conditions at Aspley Guise, 73

• Fuller—
• The Holy and Profane State by, quoted as to yeomen, 36–37
• " " " " " fiscal importance, 346

• Gairdner—
• Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. edited by, quoted, 319, 322, 323, 324, 326, 327, 330, 334, 343, 347, 350, 361, 380
• Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution by, quoted, 399

• Gardiner, History of England 1603–1642 by, quoted, 398

• Gaskell—
• Artisans and Machinery by, 106
• The Manufacturing Population of Great Britain, 106

• Gasquet, Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries by, 383

• Gay, Professor—
• views of as to progress of pasture-farming, 10, 195, 224, 263–265
• " " revolt of 1607, 318, 320
• " " small disturbance caused by enclosure, 11

• Gneist, R. von, 400

• Gonner, Professor—
• evidence of as to continuity of enclosures, 11
• " " " enclosures of eighteenth century, 263
• " " " fines for depopulation, 386
• " " " immigration into towns, 275

• Grenvilles, the, lands of Buckland Abbey granted to, 194

• Hales, John—
• bills introduced by, 367, 385
• charge to juries by, 367
• departure from England of, 371
• evidence of as to enclosing by peasants, 151, 167
• " " " in fifteenth century, 11–12, 166
• " " population, 105
• " " rack-renting, 199
• " " rise in prices, 199
• part played by on Royal Commission of 1548–1549, 167, 360–367
• remarks of on commons, 7
• value of evidence of, 5–6, 386
• Warwick’s attack on, 368

• Hammond, J.L. and Barbara, views of as to enclosures of eighteenth century, 3, 183

• Harrington, Sir J.—
• views of as to decay of feudalism, 191
• " " " effect of Tudor agrarian policy, 388–389
• " " " rise of middle-classes, 38

• Harrison—
• views of on copyholders, 49, 56–57
• " " depopulation, 105
• " " diet of artificers and husbandmen, 132–133
• " " Poor Laws, 271, 273
• " " prosperity of yeomen, 10, 21, 40
• " " superfluous trades, 19

• Harry Clowte, 333

• Hasbach—
• quotation by as to advantages of copyhold tenure, 86
• views of on age of marriage, 106
• " " effects of Tudor commercial policy, 13

• Henry II., Assize of Novel Disseisin established by, 122

• Henry VII.—
• commercial policy of, 112–113, 197
• demand of peasants for conditions obtaining under, 98–99
• enclosures made before reign of, 11–12, 166

• Harrington on agrarian policy of, 38, 191, 388–389

• Henry VIII.—
• commercial policy of, 112–113, 197
• intervention to protect tenants under, 360–362
• letter of Cromwell to, 360–361

• Herbert, Lord, History of King Henry VIII. by, quoted, 398

• Herbert, William, Earl of Pembroke—
• estates of, consolidation of peasant holdings on, 67–69
• " " demesne lands on usually leased, 203
• " " " " leased to capitalist farmers, 210
• " " " " " " small holders, 204–205
• " " " " " " village, 205–206
• " " " " proportion of pasture on, 225–226
• " " statistics of duration of tenure and of fines on, 298
• " " " " tenants on, 25
• " " villeins on, 42
• park of attacked by peasants, 194, 326
• rebellion in West put down by, 324
• share of in monastic estates, 324, 380

• Humberstone—
• manors of Duke of Devonshire surveyed by, 5
• remarks of, on relation of lords to tenants, 349–350
• " " on variety of manorial customs, 293

• Huntingdon, the Earl of, request to elect his nominee, 387

• Jack of the North, 333

• Jack of the Style, 318

• Jackson, Cyril, Report of on Boy Labour, 342

• James I., agrarian policy of Government of, 374–375, 394, 398

• Johnson, the Rev. A.H.—
• views of, on decay of yeomanry in nineteenth century, 139
• " " enclosure of commons, 9
• " " entailing of land, 39
• " " geographical distribution of enclosures, 261

• Kalm, Account of a Visit to England (translated by J. Lucas) by, on open field system, 389

• Ket, Robert—
• manor held by, 326
• programme of agrarian reform put forward by, 334–337
• rebellion in Norfolk led by, 331–333

• King, Gregory—
• statistics of as to population, 21
• " " " yield of an acre, 111

• Kitchin, Court Leet by, on copyhold tenure, 289

• Latimer, Bishop—
• complaints of by landlords, 368
• remarks of on education of yeomen, 134–135
• views of on agrarian changes, 6, 134–135, 347, 365, 386

• Laud, Archbishop—
• activity of on Depopulation Commission, 391, 399, 420–421
• complaints of by landlords, 420–421

• Lamond, Miss E.M., introduction by to The Commonweal of this Realm of England, 7, 11, 105, 263, 331, 364, 366, 367, 368, 377, 385

• Leadam, I.—
• evidence of as to independence of peasants, 120–121, 325, 330
• " " " protection of tenants by Government, 357, 360, 362
• " " " size of enclosures, 154–155
• " " " status of enclosers, 154–155
• views of on copyhold tenure, 289–290, 292, 293
• " " enclosing for arable, 10, 195, 224
• " " geographical distribution of enclosures, 8, 262

• Lee, J.—
• A Vindication of a Regulated Enclosure by, evidence of as to enclosures of
• seventeenth century, 11, 151
• number of labourers employed, 22
• views of on uselessness of legislation, 319
• " " yardlands, 67

• Leicester, the Earl of, manor purchased by, 302

• Leonard, Miss E.M.—
• evidence of as to exclusion of immigrants by towns, 376
• letter from Justices quoted by, 278–279
• views of on enclosures of seventeenth century, 11
• " " results of agrarian policy of Tudors and Stuarts, 348, 389–390

• Lever, sermons by, 6

• Lloyd, oppression of tenants by, 390

• Locke, Two Treatises of Government by, quoted as to limits of Government action, 400

• Mackay, T., views of on origin of Poor Law, 266–267

• Maitland, F.W.—
• evidence of as to fixed copyhold rents, 119, 305
• view of as to nature of common rights, 244

• Merton College—
• letter to subwarden of, 30, 410–411
• rents on estates of, 119
• scale of landholding on estates of, 66–68, 73, 76, 85, 163

• Moore, John—
• evidence of as to enclosures of seventeenth century, 5, 11, 167
• " " " pauperism caused by enclosures, 278

• More, Sir Thomas—
• evidence of as to enclosing for pasture, 6
• " " " monastic economy, 382
• remarks of on condition of workmen and artificers, 45
• " " nature of Government, 274, 372

• Nasse, view of as to objects of enclosure, 10

• Norden—
• evidence of as to agriculture in Somersetshire, 110–111, 171
• " " constitution of a manor, 350
• evidence of as to copyhold and customary tenure, 47, 50
• " " " enclosure by peasants, 151
• " " " fixity of copyholders' rents, 118
• " " " relations between lords and freeholders, 30
• " " " rise in prices, 308
• " " " security of freeholders, 30, 35
• " " " unpopularity of surveyors, 349
• " " " villeinage, 46
• " " " wickedness of depopulation, 150

• North, Lord, letter of to Bishop of Ely, 349

• Northumberland, the Earl of—
• fines on estates of, 299, 305
• letter to, 303
• petition to, 303–304

• Page, statistics of as to commutation of labour services, 52

• Paget, Sir William, letter of to Somerset on peasants' revolts, 319, 338–339, 368

• Parker, Archbishop, address of to Norfolk rebels, 332

• Pembroke, the Earl of, see Herbert, Sir William

• Petruschevsky—
• The Rebellion of Wat Tyler by, on improvement of wastes, 87
• on land speculation by peasants, 81

• Pollard, Professor, 264, 371

• Pollock and Maitland, see Maitland

• Powell, E., The East Anglian Rising by, evidence of as to landholders, 21–22

• Poyntz, Sir Nicholas, oppression of tenant by, 362

• Pseudonismus—
• Considerations concerning Common Fields and Enclosures and A Vindication of the Considerations concerning Common Fields and Enclosures, evidence of as to the abuse of commons, 171, 278 evidence of as to depopulation, 167
• " " " enclosing in seventeenth century, 11, 388
• " " " legislation checking conversion to pasture, 388

• Pyrce Plowman, 202, 318, 333

• Raleigh, Walter (junior), on subsidies, 346

• Raleigh, Walter (senior), part played in revolt of 1549, 194

• Reyce, account by of prosperity of freeholders in Suffolk, 40

• Rich, Lord—
• enclosing by, 380
• letter of Cromwell to, 361

• Rogers, Thorold, statistics of as to prices, 13, 196, 198

• Rous, evidence of as to enclosing in fifteenth century, 12

• Russell, Ket’s Rebellion in Norfolk by, quoted, 98, 321, 324, 335, 368

• St. John, Sir John, oppression of tenants by, 362

• Sanders, part played by in agrarian dispute at Coventry, 326

• Sandes, Richard, paper by on the evils of depopulation, 416–417

• Sandys, Archbishop, letter of to Queen Elizabeth, 48–49

• Savine, Dr. A.—
• views of on copyhold tenure, 287, 292, 300
• " " monastic economy, 203, 225, 226, 383
• " " villeinage in sixteenth century, 41

• Saye and Sele, Lord, name of returned among enclosers, 376

• Schanz, Professor G., statistics of as to export of woollen cloth, 196

• Seebohm, Dr. F., Domesday statistics quoted by, 27

• Shakespeare, references to works of, 194, 343

• Sheffield, Sir R., enclosing by, 380

• Shrewsbury, the Earl of—
• dispute of with tenants, 327
• enclosing by, 380
• letter from, 338–339

• Slater, Dr. G.—
• Summary of Depopulation Acts by, 353
• views of on effect of statutes against depopulation, 389
• " " geographical distribution of enclosures, 262
• " " policy of Clarendon, 400

• Smith, Sir Thomas—
• De Republica Anglorum by, on copyholders, 56–57
• " " " " Court of Star Chamber, 358
• " " " " villeinage, 46
• " " " " yeomen, 28, 32

• Somerset, the Duke of—
• Act giving security to tenants on demesnes of, 294, 365
• agrarian policy of, 362–370
• Commission on Enclosures appointed by, 366
• Court of Requests used by, 367
• execution of, 370
• proclamation issued by, 7, 367

• Starkey, Thomas, A Dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Thomas Lupset by, on agrarian changes, 5

• Starkey, Thomas, A Dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Thomas Lupset by, on encouragement of marriage, 105

• Starkey, Thomas, A Dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Thomas Lupset by, on entailing of lands, 39

• Starkey, Thomas, A Dialogue between Cardinal Pole and Thomas Lupset by, on relations between lords and tenants, 195

• Steffen, Dr. G., statistics of as to price changes, 13, 198

• Strype, J., Ecclesiastical Memorials by, quoted, 315, 331, 366, 367, 368, 370, 380

• Stuarts, the, see Charles I., James I.

• Throgmorton, Sir John, oppression of tenants by, 373

• Tom of Trumpington, 333

• Tusser, Six Hundred Points of Husbandry by, evidence of as to agrarian changes, 5

• Unwin, Professor G.—
• evidence of as to formation of compact holdings by peasants, 84, 164
• " " " growth of capitalists in woollen industry, 186

• Vermuyden, engaged to drain Great Level, 395

• Vinogradoff, Professor P.—
• Domesday statistics quoted by, 27
• rights of common explained by, 244
• views of as to equality of shares in fields, 77, 92

• Walter of Henley on yield of an acre, 111

• Warwick, the Earl of—
• attack of on Hales, 368
• " on Somerset led by, 380
• character of Government of, 371–372
• Ket’s rebellion crushed by, 324, 332
• share of in monastic estates, 380

• Westmoreland, the Earl of, disputes of with tenants, 380

• Willoughbys, the, 192

• Wilson, Dr. Thomas—
• views of on Canon Law, 307
• " " usury, 109, 147, 307

• Winstanley—
• diggers led by, 321, 337–338, 376
• views of, 337–338

• Witte, Sir J., enclosing by, 380

• Wolsey, Cardinal, agrarian policy of, 359–360, 397–398

• Yorke, Sir John—
• land speculation by, 381
• oppression of tenants by, 285, 390

• Young, Arthur—
• views of as to open field system, 401, 405
• " " " rents, 118

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