First published in 1966. The main object of the present work is to trace the process whereby the land of this country came into agricultural use under full individual control. That movement, as will be seen, is treated as continuous and as due in the main to the operation of large economic and, so to say, normal causes. While the rapidity and extent of inclosure varies from time to time, and while its kind undergoes certain changes, progress continues.

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Part 1 Common and Inclosure; Part 1Chapter 1 Common; Part 1chapter2 Extinction of Common and Common Rights; Part 1chapter3 The Method of Inclosure in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Part 2 Progress of Inclosure; Part 2Chapter 1, p. 238 et seq. This, as also and, should be consulted throughout.It should be remembered in dealing with the amount or percentage of land inclosed, both in the text and the tables, that a certain amount of the land in any district or county was occupied by the actual villages, the public roads and the inland waters. Hence the percentage would be higher if only land open to use were taken into account.; Part 2chapter2 Inclosure During the Seventeenth Century; Part 2chapter3 Inclosure in the Eighteenth Century; Part 3 Effects of Inclosure; Part 3Chapter 1 I: General Effects; Part 3chapter2 Agriculture; Part 3chapter3 Particular Products; Part 3chapter4 Animal Products and Grain; Part 3chapter5 General Conditions of Rural Life; Part 3chapter6 Employment and Population;