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sixteenth century and 1760 rather than after that period; that 

 enclosure of the open fields after 1760 was not disastrous to 

 occupying owners who had more than one acre of land ; and that 

 earlier enclosure should probably, in the main, be looked upon not 

 as a cause but as a result of the disappearance of small farms. 



