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Tillage Act 1488

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Anno quartoHenriciseptimi. The penalty for decaying of Houses of Husbandry, or not laying of convenient Land forthe maintenance of the same.

(4 Hen. 7) C A P. XIX.

ITEM, the King our Soueraigne Lord, hauing a singular pleasure aboue all things to auoide such enormities and mischiefes, as bee hurtfull and preiudiciall to the common weale of this his land and hissubjects of the same, remembreth that among all other things great inconueniences daily doe increase by desolation and pulling downe, and wilfull waste of houses and townes within this Realme, and laying to pasture lands, which customably haue beene vsed in tillage, whereby idlenesse, which is the ground and beginning of all mischiefes, daily doth encrease. For where in some townes two hundred persons were occupied and liued by their lawfull labours, now there are occupied two or three heardmen, and the residue fall into idlenesse, the husbandrie which is one of the greatest commodities of this Realme is greatly decayed, Churches destroyed, the service of God withdrawen, the bodies there buried not prayed for, the Patrons and Curates wronged, the defence of this land against our enemies outward, feebled and impaired, to the great displeasure of God, to the subuersion of the pollicie and good rule of this land, if remedie be not prouided: Wherefore the King our Soueraigne Lord by the aduice of the Lords spirituall and temporall, and the Commons in this said Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, hath ordained, enacted and stablished, that no person, of what estate degree or condition that he be, that hath any house or houses, that at any time within three yeers passed, hath beene or that now is, or that hereafter shall be lette for ferme with xx. acres of land at least, or more, lying in tillage and Husbandrie, that the owner and owners of euery such house or houses and land, doe keepe sustaine and maintaine houses and buildings vpon the said ground, and land conuenient and necessarie for maintaining and vpholding of the saide tillage and Husbandrie. And if any such owner or owners of any such house or houses and...

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