The Commons, Your Land

The commons were an integral part of mediaeval life for the ordinary villager in england. All the land it was owned by either a king or a lord, but the peasants had very substantial and real rights on these common lands. That began to change in the 14 hundreds when wool prices rose across europe. Landowners cleared entire villages of people, making them homeless,. In a county called warwickshire, 61 villages were wiped out before the year 15 hundred. Parliament created more and more laws to keep people from using what was once common land. It all ramped up.