The Importance of Common Lands

You had common right to those lands. You didn't necessarily own the land. So there's a whole kind of like suite of possibilities that enable you to live this in this position of, you know, pretty much kind of semi autonomy if you're a commoner. And actually what happens in the process of enclosure is exactly as we put up those hedgerows,. They make sure that you don't plant any fruit trees in the hedgerow or an orchard isn't too close to the footpath so that people couldn't glean the fruits from the hedgerows. In order to maintain that position of independence once they've been pushed off the land, they really kind of microman