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The Tillage Act of 1555 recognized that certain parts of England 

 were not affected in such a manner as to require legislative inter- 

 ference. Elizabeth's Act of 1597, with more precision, named 

 comparatively untouched counties as lying in the north- 

 east, and south. John Hales, about 1 549, laid the scene of 

 his dialogue at Coventry, in the center of England ; 6 and a 

 tury later Halhead wrote against the same depopulating inclosures 

 for sheep-farming from the same county of Warwickshire. 7 Practi- 

 cally all the contemporary indications and the list of references 

 could easily be extended point in the same direction, to the 

 Midland district. 



1 A. Ilasbach, Die englischen Landarbeiter und die Einhegungen, 1894, p. 20. 



2 Inclosure cases under Act 5 Eliz. c. 2 (Exch. Mem., King's Remembrancer): 



* Northamptonshire, 34 places and 40.25 per cent of the total acreage. 



8 J. Rossi, /// ' . ed. 1745. He names (pp > some 



ir places which within a circuit of thirteen miles about Warwick had 

 been wholly or partially depopulated before about 1486. He seems i; 

 to be aware that the movement is confined "in umbclico re, letter 



of the Vicar of Ouinton to President Mayhew of Magdalen College is ; 



n His. MSS Com., 18^ III. Pt I, p. 263, and in full in 



\\ |> -MtMn's "England in the Fifteenth 1888, pp. 318-320. 



nstrong, Treatise concerning tl 

 "Certayne Causes, 1550-15; ur Supplications," 1 



HI. p. 96. 



*[tohn Hales) Discourse of the Common Weal, cd. Elizabeth Ijmiond, 

 ' 15. 



id, Inclosure Throwi 50. 



