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The Commons - The Land of the Peasants

Ken Ilgunas: In medieval England, the peasants had real rights on common lands. He says that began to change in 1400s when wool prices rose across Europe. Land owners cleared entire villages of people, making them homeless, he says.Ilgunas: Parliament created more and more laws to keep people from using what was once common land.

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