Editing Cottage (section)

===Enclosure acts===
{{see also|Enclosure|Inclosure act}}
Over the years various English [[acts of Parliament]] removed the right of the cottager to hold land. According to [[John Lawrence Hammond]] and [[Barbara Hammond]] in their book ''The Village Labourer'', before an [[inclosure act]] a cottager was a farm labourer with land, and after an [[inclosure act]] the cottager was a farm labourer without land.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hammond |first1=J L |title=The Village Labourer 1760–1832 |last2=Barbara Hammond |publisher=Longman Green & Co |year=1912 |location=London |page=100 |author-link=John Lawrence Hammond |author-link2=Barbara Hammond}}</ref>