The true cause of the English Civil War. Charles I, Commoners King, halting then reversing enclosure

Описание: Charles I: The Commoners' King - halting then reversing enclosure
Yes... King Charles I was 're-nationalising' newly enclosed land, just before the English
Civil War broke out.

Charles I: The Commoners' King - halting then reversing enclosure

Yes... King Charles I was 're-nationalising' newly enclosed land, just before the English Civil War broke out.

I present here three accounts, from two different books, of pre-Civil War actions by King Charles I to penalise lords of manors, merchants and other enclosers. I suggest resentment caused by these retrospective compositions, or fines, may have been the true reason for acrimony, and eventually civil war, between England's feudal and merchant classes. It certainly speaks very well for Charles' record and was largely a result of his good relationship with Archbishop Laud, who was championing the needs of the new landless classes within the English government.

After the civil war enclosure was greatly accellerated by a landowners parliament, to blight the entire population to the present day. If the 'compositions' had not been retrospective the merchant class may have put up with them... but this aspect of Charles' new anti-depopulation and anti-enclosure fines/laws made the merchant class very angry.

Extract 1 - 'The English Village Community and the Enclosure Movements' - W. E. Tate, Victor Gollancz, London, 1967. "From about 1607 to 1636, the Government pursued an active anti- enclosure policy"

Extract 2 - The English Village Community and the Enclosure Movements by W. E. Tate, Victor Gollancz, London, 1967 - 'If the reign in its social and agrarian policy may be judged solely from the number of anti-enclosure commissions set up, then undoubtedly King Charles I is the one English monarch of outstanding importance as an agrarian reformer.'

Extract 3 - Common Land and Inclosure, by E. C. K. Gonner. Macmillan and Co., Limited. St. Martin's Street, London. 1912. - 'In 1633-4 we find a proposal that all inclosures made since James I. should be thrown back into arable on pain of forfeiture, save such as be compounded for. The suggestion was not lost sight of, and from 1635 to 1638 compositions were levied in respect of depopulations in several counties of which an account is fortunately preserved.' - download this as a printable Word document with table and footnotes

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