The Enclosures in England

The Enclosures in England, subtitled An Economic Reconstruction, is by Harriett Bradley Fitt. The text says that details of manorial history derived from the account rolls of the manors themselves, and contemporary manorial maps and surveys, as well as the records of the actual market prices of grain and wool, have been ignored in the construction of an hypothetical account of the movement. The text says it would be helpful to have exact information about the amount of land converted from arable to pasture in each decade of the period under consideration, and that there are no records to supply most of this information.

The text says that the villains did not buy themselves free of the marks of servitude. The text gives Witney as an example, where the works of all the native tenants had been commuted by 1376. The text lists a School of Practical Arts founded in 1912, with courses in household and industrial arts, fine arts, music, and physical training.