The reader of Wright’s work will easily appreciate how the 
centralist structure of Elizabeth was being undermined from 
within by a new variety of rugged individualists:

     Isolated groups had already begun to challenge the 
     system of government controls, the printers for economic 
     reasons, the Puritans for religious reasons, and at least 
     one member of Parliament for political reasons. Printers 
     like Wolfe chafed under the rules of the Stationers 
     Company. They rebelled against the printing privileges and 
     the patents of monopoly. The religious nonconformists, 
     denied the privilege of appealing to public opinion, darted 
     about inserting wedges with which they eventually 
     wrecked the entire structure. (92)

     It would need a book in itself to explain how the Enclosure