henry 7th prosperity and depression

• what is engrossment

  • several farms joined together to make one more protitable unit
• what are positives and negatives off engrossment

  positives: profitable, knowledgable control efficency

  negatives: families evicted, fewer jobs
• what is enclosure

  • closing off fields so one person has access to them
• what is open field husbandry

  • was a way of splitting up the farmers
  • light strips for lords
  • middle strips for present farming
  • darker strips for glee
• what was happening in enclosure

  • 3% in midlands
  • have evictions been over- exaggerated - impact of black death
  • families had been done before henrys reign
• what legislation as involved

  • 1489
  • isle of wright start to depopulation but it was important for henry to get people to stop leaving as they were jey to their devence
  • more general adressed the belief that enclosure might result in breakdown of law and order