Reclamation of land - Government policy - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

The first report from the Select Committee of the Honourable the House of Commons , Appointed to take into Consideration the Means of promoting the cultivation and improvement of the waste, uninclosed, and unproductive Lands of the Kingdom: shewing, The Circumstances which anciently occasioned Waste Lands :- The President's Address on their Cultivation and Improvement; the Advantages to be derived from their Division :- Successful Experiments on the Culture of Potatoes in Waste and Boggy Lands :-Extracts from the County Agricultural Reports, pointing out the great Advantages of a General Inclosure Bill; the different Rights of Commons; Laws for their Division; and, the Resolutions of the Board or Agriculture for their speedy Inclosure and Cultivation.