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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