Describe in brief the changes that occurred with the coming of modern agriculture in England.

Modern Agriculture had affected the following changes in England:
(i) The open fields disappeared.
(ii) The customary rights of peasants were undermined.
(iii) The richer farmers expanded grain production sold this grain in the world market, made profits, and became powerful.
(iv) The poor were affected badly. They were forced to leave their villages in large numbers.
(v) Some went to the Southern counties for sale and others to the cities
(vi) The wages of the labourers were reduced that led to instability in their income. Their jobs became insecure and their livelihood precarious. The law gave them no redress.