PREFACE 



AMONG many who have given me valuable 

 assistance in preparing these lectures, I wish to 

 express my especial thanks to the following. 

 To Mr. Gray of Harvard College, who most 

 generously placed at my disposal the results of 

 his inquiries into Surveys of the Tudor and 

 Stuart periods, and into the earlier Land Tax 

 Assessments for Oxfordshire and Gloucester- 

 shire ; to Mr. Leadam for allowing me to use 

 much of his unpublished work on the Tudor 

 inquisitions ; to Mr. Cra'ster for help with regard 

 to Northumberland ; to Mr. Fisher for information 

 with regard to the monastic lands; to Professor 

 Firth for suggestions and references for the 

 seventeenth century ; to Mr. Slater who gave me 

 some unpublished statistics as to enclosure of the 

 waste ; and to Mr. Prothero for information with 

 regard to the eighteenth century. 



I also wish to thank the Clerks of the Peace 

 throughout England, and notably Mr. Davenport 

 of Oxford and Mr. Merriman of Marlborough, 

 for help given with regard to the Land Tax 

 Assessments. 



OXFORD, June, 1909. 



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