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tradition had been to trust to the good 

 faith of the landlord, and that practically 

 the security thus afforded to the tenants' 

 capital had been as great as could be 

 reasonably expected. The enclosures, the 

 dissolution of the monasteries, the purchase 

 of the old acres by new men, the rise in 

 prices, and the increase of luxury which 

 mark the beginning of the modern period, 

 no doubt for a time disturbed the 

 relations of landlords and tenants, but 

 before the end of the reign of Elizabeth 

 the tradition of good fellowship between 

 landlord and tenant had been thoroughly 

 established. 



Certain it is that during the seventeenth 

 century agriculture made much progress. 

 This was partly due to the imitation of 

 Dutch methods in the rotation of crops 

 and the cultivation of winter roots. But 

 as already shown, there was much capital 



