6 CONTENTS 



VII 



EVIDENCES AS TO EXACT DATES WHEN THE SMALL 

 LANDOWNER DECLINED 



PAGE 



The periods since the seventeenth century which were 

 most fatal to the small owner and farmer. Evidences and 

 statistics. The Elizabethan and Stuart surveys and terriers. 

 The assessments to the Land Tax. Conclusions to be drawn 

 from them 128 



VIII 



COMPARISON BETWEEN ENGLAND AND OTHER 

 COUNTRIES 



The position of the small owner in France, Belgium, and 

 Germany 155 



MAPS 

 I. Map of England, showing Enclosures 1455-1607. 



II A. Map of England, showing Enclosure of Common Field and 

 Waste in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 



II B. Map of England, showing Enclosure of Waste only, in the 

 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 



