 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 - Σελίδα 2401829Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - 1805 - 318 σελίδες
...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) - 1829 - 590 σελίδες
...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 - 1856 - 532 σελίδες
...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 - 1857 - 560 σελίδες
...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 - 1873 - 964 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 - 1878 - 482 σελίδες
...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 - 1881 - 704 σελίδες
...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 - 1881 - 546 σελίδες
...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 - 1881 - 296 σελίδες
...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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