Merricks, L. (1994). Without violence and by controlling the poorer sort': the enclosure of Ashdown Forest 1640-1693. Sussex Archaeological Collections 132. Vol 132, pp. 115-128. https://doi.org/10.5284/1086164. Cite this via datacite
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Without violence and by controlling the poorer sort': the enclosure of Ashdown Forest 1640-1693 | ||||||
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Sussex Archaeological Collections 132 | ||||||
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This paper examines the process of enclosure in Ashdown Forest between the 1640s, when the effects of the Civil War led to disturbances in many areas of forest and waste in England, and 1693, when the decree dividing Ashdown was formally enacted. The involvement of various groups, and their motivation, is described, with particular attention being paid to the Sackville family who were the most powerful family with Forest connections during the period and who held the major offices. Changes in ideology are related to the changes 'on the ground'. Most important, the extent to which enclosure of Ashdown Forest was a process of protest, negotiation, and compromise over a period of fifty years is shown, with the result that the Forest was never totally enclosed and a large amount of land remains open today - almost entirely as a result of the continual fighting for retention of this common land by the commoners of the 17th century. | ||||||
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1994 | ||||||
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