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The Enclosure of Open Ficlds: Preface to a Study of Its Impact on the Efficiency of English Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century N 1700 much of the land of Encland was farmed under the ancient system of open fields. With is three great fields planted in a communally regulated rotation af crops, its common meadows fand wastes, and its mixture of holdings in hondreds of stripe less than acre each, this apparently inefficient system lind characterized the agriculture of northem and easter Evrope for centres In England it bad never been vniversal and had from sn early date Deen subject to erosion at the edges, giving way by agreement ‘among tenants and by compulsion from landlords to compact en-

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