 | Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - Social Science - 1805 - 312 pages
...nothing profiting, yea much * knowing the weale publique: leave no ground for ' tillage : they enclose all into pastures : they 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... | |
 | 1829 - 590 pages
...nothing profiting, yea, much annoying the weal publick — leave no ground for tillage ; they enclose all into pastures, they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing but only the church to be made a sheep-house. And, as though you lost no small quantity of ground by... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - Political science - 1856 - 532 pages
...pleasure, nothing profiting, yea, much annoying the weal public, leave no ground for tillage. They enclose all into pastures, they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing but only the church, to be made a sheep-house. And, as though you lost no small quantity of ground... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 560 pages
...leave no Erasmaa. * 4 Hen. VIL, cap. 16. t 4 Hen. VIL, cap. 19. 248 POPULATION— AGRICULTURE. [1509. ground for tillage. They inclose all into pastures...they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep-house. And, as though you lost no small quantity of ground by... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...Then there was 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 down towns, and leave nothing standing but only the church to be made a sheep-house." Thus husbandmen were thrust out of their own ; thus... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...depopulation of the country by throwing land out of tillage to make large iuclosures for sheep pasture : " They throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep-house. And as though you lost no small quantity of ground by... | |
 | Emile de Laveleye - Land use - 1878 - 482 pages
...same complaints:—" Noblemen and gentlemen, yea, and even certain abbots, not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont...And as though you lost no ground by forests, chase lauds, and parks, those good holy men turn all dwelling-places and all glebe-lands into desolation... | |
 | Emile de Laveleye - Land use - 1878 - 422 pages
...same complaints: — " Noblemen and gentlemen, yea, and even certain abbots, not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont...down towns, and leave nothing standing. And as though yon lost no ground by forests, chase lands, and parks, those good holy men turn all dwelling-places... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1286 pages
...being content that they live in rest and pleasure, nothing profiting, yea, much noying the weal public, leave no ground for tillage. They inclose all into...they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep-house. And, as though you lost no small quantity of ground by... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - Agriculture - 1881 - 296 pages
...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... | |
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... leave no ground for tillage, they inclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep-house. 
