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THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY AND THE ENCLOSURE OF COMMON FIELDS
THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY AND THE ENCLOSURE OF COMMON FIELDS
Studies in Economics and Political Science
Edited by H. J. Mackinder, M.A., Director of the
London School of Economics
No. 14.
THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY
AND THE
ENCLOSURE OF COMMON FIELDS
OPEN FIELDS AT EPWORTH, ISLE OF AXHOLME.
Frontispiece.
THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY
AND THE ENCLOSURE OF
COMMON FIELDS
BY
GILBERT SLATER, M.A., D.Sc.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CARRINGTON, K.G., G.C.M.G., Etc.
President of the Board of Agriculture
LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. Ltd.
1907
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,
LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.
AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
The investigations embodied in this book were begun in 1894,on the suggestion of Mr. Graham Wallas, and at the request ofMr. J. A. Spender. They were continued in subsequent years,in conjunction with the London School of Economics, and theresults were summarised in a thesis entitled “The Enclosure ofCommon Fields in England in the Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies,” which was submitted to the University of Londonin 1904, and approved as a thesis for the degree of Doctor ofScience in Economics. That thesis consisted in the first placeof a series of maps, partially reproduced in this volume throughthe kind assistance of the Royal Geographical Society; and inthe second place of manuscript matter which has been revisedfor publication in the form of this volume and under thepresent title.