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Compassion for the homeless

Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,

That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,

How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,

Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you

From seasons such as this? O, I have ta'en

Too little care of this.

William Shakespeare King Lear (Act II, scene iii)

King Lear by William Blake c 1780
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Stolen Land: Enclosure in Tudor England
In Henry VIII's reign John Palmer bought a former monastic manor. 'Being a man of great power', he grabbed their copyhold pastures from several tenants and enclosed them to make a park. And 'through like power took ... all their commons and made of them fishponds' for his private use. He also seized houses, grounds, lands, tenements and orchards, pulling down houses and driving some of the occupants 'out of the said lordship by force and violence.' Lands which he had given them in alleged compensation were of inferior quality; and anyway were not his to give. The unfortunate tenants ('very poor men... and in great fear of their lives' as well as of their property’) dare not return home into their country' without the King's 'most gracious speedy remedy' in Star Chamber.

from Liberty and The Law by Christopher Hill

#english culture#england#english landscape#english history#enclosure#tudor england#peasants#land grab#henry viii#16th century#class war
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