...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...