Commons example sentences

Landlords sliced up pasturelands, carved up open fields, cut up forest commons, took over marshes, and turned larger and larger areas into agricultural fields.The poor could no longer collect their firewood from the forests, or graze their cattle on the commons.They drove out villagers who had small cottages on the commons, and they prevented the poor from entering the enclosed fields.But what happened to those who depended on the commons for their survival? When fences came up, the enclosed land became the exclusive property of one landowner.Cricket was originally played on country commons, unfenced land that was public property.The size of the commons varied from one village to another, so there were no designated boundaries or boundary hits.illage commons (grazing grounds, burial grounds, village ponds, etc.As you have seen in the textbook last year, this was a time when open fields were disappearing and commons were being enclosed.