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" The ordinance was, that all houses of husbandry, that were used with twenty acres of ground and upwards, should be maintained and kept up for ever, together with a competent proportion of land to be used and occupied with them... "
The works of Francis Bacon - Page 60
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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The English Poor: A Sketch of Their Social and Economic History

Thomas Mackay - England - 1889 - 328 pages
...wisdom was admirable and the parliament's at that time. The ordinance was that all houses of husbandry should be maintained and kept up for ever, together...proportion of land, to be used and occupied with them. The penalty attached to neglect was forfeiture to the king. The object of the king, says Lord Verulam,...
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The English Poor: A Sketch of Their Social and Economic History

Thomas Mackay - England - 1889 - 320 pages
...wisdom was admirable and the parliament's at that time. The ordinance was that all houses of husbandry should be maintained and kept up for ever, together...proportion of land, to be used and occupied with them. The penalty attached to neglect was forfeiture to the king. The object of the king, says Lord Verulam,...
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Hobbes's Leviathan; Harrington's Ocean; Famous Pamphlets [A.D. 1644 to A.D ...

Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...that for population, those against retainers, and that for alienations. By the statute of population, all houses of husbandry that were used with twenty acres of ground and upwards, were to be maintained and kept up for ever with a competent proportion of land laid to them, and in...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 456 pages
...tillage they would not compel, for that was to strive with nature and utility. . . . The ordinance was, that all houses of husbandry, that were used with...of land to be used and occupied with them, and in nowise to be severed from them,' &c. &c. Works, vi. 93. It is curious to remark that the statute which...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 510 pages
...ensued withal "a decay and diminution of subsidies and taxes." To remedy these defects it was ordered "that all houses of husbandry, that were used with...proportion of land to be used and occupied with them." Bacon remarks upon the advantage of having these farms, as it were, of a standard. They maintained...
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Ideal Commonwealths: Comprising More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis ...

Utopias - 1901 - 482 pages
...that for population, those against retainers, and that for alienations. By the statute of population, all houses of husbandry that were used with twenty acres of ground and upward, were to be maintained and kept up forever with a competent proportion of land laid to them,...
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The Strength of England: A Politico-economis History of England from Saxton ...

Joseph William Wilson Welsford - England - 1910 - 396 pages
...not by that name, or by any imperious express prohibition, but by consequence. " The ordinance was, ' That all houses of husbandry, that were used with...proportion of land to be used and occupied with them ' (as by another statute, made afterwards in his successor's time was more fully declared) ; this upon...
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The Evolution of Revolution, Volume 25

Henry Mayers Hyndman - Economic history - 1921 - 424 pages
...of enclosures and to substitute pasture for arable farming. Hence, as Bacon records, an ordinance: " That all houses of husbandry that were used with twenty acres of ground and upwards should be used and kept for com ; together with a competent proportion of land to be used and occupied with them...
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The Evolution of Revolution, Volume 25

Henry Mayers Hyndman - Economic history - 1921 - 420 pages
...husbandry that were used with twenty acres of ground and upwards should be used and kept for corn ; together with a competent proportion of land to be used and occupied with them and in nowise to be severed from them, as by another statute made afterwards in his successor's time was more...
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Hebrew Tribal Economy and the Jubilee as Illustrated in Semitic and Indo ...

Henry Schaeffer - Ethnic groups - 1922 - 220 pages
...Hebrew Tribal Economy. 13 by any imperious express prohibition, but by consequence. The ordinance was, that all houses of husbandry, that were used with...proportion of land to be used and occupied with them". This enactment was succeeded by others of a similar character, but it seems that the evil of inclosure...
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