3d July, 1607.
About this time there was an insurrection of the country people in Northamptonshire, headed by one Reynolds, a man of low condition.

They went about destroying enclosures; but carefully avoided committing any other outrage.

This insurrection was easily suppressed; and, though great lenity was used towards the rioters, yet were some of the ringleaders punished.

The chief cause of that trivial commotion seems to have been, of itself, far from trivial.

The practice still continued in England of disusing tillage and throwing the land into enclosures, for the sake of pasture.