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CHAPTER IV 



Enclosure For Sheep Pasture 86 



Enclosure by small tenants difficult— Open-field tenants unprofit- 

 able—Low rents — Neglect of land — High cost of living — Enclo- 

 sure even of demesne a hardship to small holders — Intermixture 

 of holdings a reason for dispossessing tenants — Higher rents from 

 enclosed land another reason — Poverty of tenants where no en- 

 closures were made— Exhaustion of open fields recognised by 

 Parliament— Restoration of fertility and reconversion to tillage — 

 New forage crops in eighteenth century — Recapitulation and con- 

 clusion. 



Index 109 



