 God wot! not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands, nor being content that they live in rest and pleasure — nothing profiting, yea, much annoying the weal...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2401829Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - Social Science - 1805 - 318 pages
...content that they ' live in rest and pleasure nothing profiting, yea much * knowing the weale publique: leave no ground for ' tillage : they enclose all into...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 590 pages
...grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen, yea, and certain abbots, holy men, God wot, not contenting themselves with...they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing hut only the church to he made a sheep-house. And, as though you lost no small quantity of ground by... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - Political science - 1856 - 532 pages
...content that they live in rest and pleasure, nothing profiting, yea, much annoying the weal public, leave no ground for tillage. They enclose all into...nothing standing but only the church, to be made a sheep-house. And, as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lands, and parks,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 560 pages
...cap. 16. t 4 Hen. VIL, cap. 19. 248 POPULATION— AGRICULTURE. [1509. ground for tillage. They inclose all into pastures ; they throw down houses ; they...nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep-house. And, as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lauds, and parks,... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...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...nothing standing but only the church to be made a sheep-house." Thus husbandmen were thrust out of their own ; thus victual had grown dear. Many were... | |
 | 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...nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep-house. And as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lands and parks,... | |
 | Emile de Laveleye - Land use - 1878 - 482 pages
...grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands, leave no ground for tillage. They inclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing. And as though you lost no ground by forests, chase lauds, and parks, those good holy men turn all dwelling-places... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1881 - 704 pages
...weal public, leave no ground for tillage. They inclose all into pastures ; they throw down liouses ; 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 forests, chases, lands, and parks,... | |
 | George Charles Brodrick - Business & Economics - 1881 - 546 pages
...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 declares that tenants were " got rid of by force or fraad, or tired out by repeated injuries into... | |
 | 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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