Editing Enclosure (section)

==Definitions==
'''Enclosure'''
*Was the removal of common rights that people held over farm lands and parish commons.{{sfn|Mingay|2014|page=7}}
*It was the re-allocation of scattered strips of land into large new fields that were enclosed either by hedges, walls or fences.{{sfn|Mingay|2014|page=7}}
*The newly created enclosed fields were reserved for the sole use of individual owners or their tenants.{{sfn|Mingay|2014|page=7}}
'''Inclosure'''
* Inclosure is the statutory and legal form of the word "enclosure". Enclosure is the process.{{sfn|Staff|2024}}
'''Villagers'''
* [[Lord of the manor]]{{sfn|Hammond|Hammond|1912|p=28}}
* [[Freehold (law)|Freeholders]] or [[yeoman]]ry. Proprietors of large and small properties{{sfn|Hammond|Hammond|1912|p=28}}
* [[Copyhold]]ers.{{efn|name=copyholder|Copyholders held their land according to the custom of the [[Manorialism|manor]]. The mode of landholding took its name from the fact that the [[Deed|title deed]] received by the tenant was a copy of the relevant entry in the [[Manorial roll|manorial court roll]]{{sfn|Hoyle|1990|pages=1–20}}}}{{sfn|Hammond|Hammond|1912|p=28}}
* [[Tenant farmers]]{{sfn|Hammond|Hammond|1912|p=28}}
* [[Serfdom#Bordars and cottagers|Cottagers]]/cottar{{sfn|Hammond|Hammond|1912|p=28}}
* [[Squatters]]{{sfn|Hammond|Hammond|1912|p=28}}
* Farm servants living in their employers' house{{sfn|Hammond|Hammond|1912|p=28}}
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