Most large for bone, flesh and wooll in this County, especially about Worm-Leighton. In this Shire the complaint of J. Rous continueth and increaseth, that sheep turn Canibals, eating up men, houses, and towns, their pastures make such depopulation.
But on the other side, it is pleaded for these Inclosures, that they make houses the fewer in this County, and the more in the Kingdome. How come buildings in great towns every day to encrease? (so that commonly Tenants are in before Tenements are ended,) but that the poor are generally maintain'd by Clothing, the Staple-trade of the Nation.
Indeed Corn doth visibly employ the poor in the place where it groweth, by Ploughing, Sowing, Mowing, Inning, Threshing: but Wooll invisibly maintaineth people at many miles distance, by Carding, Spinning, Weaving, Dressing, Dying it. However an expedient might be so used betwixt Tillage and Pastureage, that Abel should not kill Cain, the Shepherd undoe the Husbandman, but both subsist comfortably together.