...content that they ' live in rest and pleasure nothing profiting, yea much * knowing the weale publique: leave no ground for ' tillage : they enclose all into...throw ' down houses: they pluck down towns, and leave e nothing standing, but only the church to be made a ' sheep house. And as tho' you lost no small quantity...

...Highlands of Scotland. The peasantry previously employed in tillage were turned adrift upon the world j the allotments of arable land, which had afforded...they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing hut only the church to he made a sheep-house. And, as though you lost no small quantity of ground by...

...the destruction of tillage and increase of pastures for the sheep of the rich abbots. " They inclose all into pastures ; they throw down houses, they pluck...standing but only the church to be made a sheep-house." Thus husbandmen were thrust out of their own ; thus victual had grown dear. Many were forced into idleness,...

...grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands, leave no ground for tillage. They inclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing. And as though you lost no ground by forests, chase lauds, and parks, those good holy men turn all dwelling-places...

...eagerness to swell their revenues, !- leave no ground for tillage ; they enclose all into pasture ; they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing." He declares that tenants were "got rid of by force or fraud, or tired out by repeated injuries into...

...eagerness to swell their revenues, " leave no ground for tillage ; they enclose all into pasture ; they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing." He declares that tenants were " got rid of by force or fraad, or tired out by repeated injuries into...

...their eagerness to swell their revenues,- leave no ground for tillage. They enclose all into pasture ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns ; and leave nothing standing." He declared that " tenants were got rid of by force or fraud, or tired out by repeated injuries, into...

...mentioning the injury done to the commonwealth by nohlemen and gentlemen, yea, and by certain Abbots who " leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all into pastures, they throw down houses," he proceeds, " Therefore that one covetous and insatiable cormorant and very plague of his native country...

...mentioning the injury done to the commonwealth by noblemen and gentlemen, yea, and by certain Abbots who " leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all into pastures, they throw down houses," he proceeds, " Therefore that one covetous and insatiable cormorant and very plague of his native couutry...

...land for litoRe. They enclose all into pasture, tney throw down houses, and leave nothing etand. ing, but only the church to be made a Sheep-house ; and, as though you lost no small quan. tity of ground by forests, chases, lanas.and parks, these good, holy men turn dwelling-places...