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The enclosure movement--the process by which the common-field system was broken down and replaced by a system of unrestricted private use--involved economic and social changes which make it one of the important subjects in English economic history. When it began, the arable fields of a community lay divided in a multitude of strips separated from each other only by borders of unplowed turf. Each landholder was in possession of a number of these strips, widely separated from each other, and scattered all over the open fields, so that he had a share in each of the various grades of land.[1] But his private use of. | The Enclosures in England by Harriett Bradley 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV The Enclosures in England by Harriett Bradley The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Enclosures in England by Harriett Bradley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction Author Harriett Bradley Release Date June 27 2009 EBook 29258 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ENCLOSURES IN ENGLAND The Enclosures in England by Harriett Bradley 2 Produced by Chris Curnow Stephanie Eason Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http 2 THE ENCLOSURES IN ENGLAND STUDIES IN HISTORY ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC LAW EDITED BY THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Volume LXXX Number 2 Whole Number 186 THE ENCLOSURES IN ENGLAND AN ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION BY HARRIETT BRADLEY . Assistant Professor of Economics Vassar College Sometime University Fellow in Economics New York COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LONGMANS GREEN CO. AGENTS LONDON . KING SON LTD. 1918 It fareth with the earth as with other creatures that through continual labour grow faint and feeble-hearted. From speech made in the House of Commons 1597 To EMILIE LOUISE WELLS CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 11 The subject of inquiry--No attempt hitherto made to verify the different hypothetical explanations of the enclosures--Nature of the evidence. CHAPTER I CHAPTER I 3 THE PRICE OF WOOL 18 Accepted theory of enclosure movement based on price of wool--Enclosures began independently of Black Death and before expansion of woollen industry--Price of wool low as compared with that of wheat in enclosure period--Seventeenth-century conversions of pasture to .