132 ENGLISH RURAL LIFE 



This, then, was the outcome of the rise and control 

 of the squirearchy. The completion of the redistribu- 

 tion of the land into enclosed fields, the 

 conclusions creation of a new and improved system of 

 farming, the abolition of the peasant farmer 

 and the rearrangement of the agricultural classes, with 

 an impoverished and discontented labouring class at 

 the base. Then there gradually emerged the typical 

 XlXth century village community, with its business 

 basis and its three main clear-cut classes the landlords, 

 the tenant farmers and the labourers. 



