The government took an hands-off position during the enclosures.  The
gentry had game wardens and others to enforce the disposession, which
worked because each land theft was local..I never heard much about armed
peasants trying to protect their land.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:59 PM, nathan tankus <
[email protected]> wrote:

> skeptical but also saw it as useful no? When it came to creating laborers
> free from property the were very happy to use state intervention. My
> impression from reading your book is they were skeptical of government
> until a practical political use of government emerged.
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