What does encloser mean?
Encloser means (now chiefly historical) Someone who appropriates common land..
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/ɪnˈkləʊzə/ · noun
(now chiefly historical) Someone who appropriates common land..
In one episode during the long-running dispute over enclosure at Grewelthorpe Moor in Yorkshire, the women of the community followed the encloser on to the moor and, ‘fallinge downe upon their knees, and some of them weepinge for the loss of their Comon, desired…[him] to be good unto them’.
It was said, for example, that […] the families of notorious enclosers always died out in three generations […].
Ironically, it was the encloser who had acted in an unbounded manner by violating the institutional boundaries of local community power.
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Encloser means (now chiefly historical) Someone who appropriates common land..
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In one episode during the long-running dispute over enclosure at Grewelthorpe Moor in Yorkshire, the women of the community followed the encloser on to the moor and, ‘fallinge downe upon their knees, and some of them weepinge for the loss of their Comon, desired…[him] to be good unto them’.
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