1920.] The Enclosure of Open-Field Farms. 841 



enclosures, the real strength of the movement, both in the 

 sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, lay in the national necessity 

 of restoring, maintaining or increasing the productivity of the 

 soil. 



With this aspect of the enclosures of 1485-1560 and 1760- 

 1820, a second article will deal in the January issue of this 

 Journal. 



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