"Secularisation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... abbeys at least were to remain in each county. But this movement owed its peculiar character to yet another motive. The enclosures of the arable land for purposes of pasture, of which the peasantry had been long complaining, did not merely continue; the nobility, which took part in the secularisation of the church-lands in an increasing degree, extended its grasp also to the newly-gained estates. So it came to pass that a rising of the peasants against the nobles was now united with tendencies ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke |
