Abstract
Large sections of the English peasantry were prospering in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. But they suffered a reversal of their expectations in the 1620s and 1630s. They were subjected to higher rents and entry fines and to the loss of some of their common rights and common pastures, especially in the fen and forest areas. Agrarian discontent led many peasant to oppose the king and royalist landlords in the civil war and to support parliament and the parliamentarian party.
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