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- Title
The Chronology of English Enclosure.
- Authors
Chapman, John
- Abstract
The article presents comments of the author on the article "The Chronology of English Enclosure, 1500-1914," by J.R. Wordie. The article presents an ingenious and stimulating attempt to come to grips with the problems of enclosure chronology, and offers an interesting example of how the difficulties imposed by lack of data may be overcome. While Wordie clearly indicates that he is concerned with the whole enclosure movement, he makes frequent use of figures which apply only to a specific part, and slips easily into misleading comparisons between the percentage of open-field land existing and the percentage of the total surface area lying in severalty. Similar objections may be raised to the figures presented for the post-seventeenth-century period. Though Wordie may be correct in assuming that there was relatively little agreement to enclose open fields after 1750, and that there were few unofficial piecemeal enclosures of such land, the same is not necessarily true of common waste.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; INCLOSURES; WORDIE, J. R.; LAND tenure laws; REAL property; WASTE lands
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1984, Vol 37, Issue 4, p557
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2596561