![]() ![]() Part One, (“Afternoon of an Autocrat”) makes short work of the stolid squire of Clevely. A passel of commissioners, (susceptible to good hospitality, spite and whim) would descend upon a village and delineate how fields and hitherto common lands were to be parcelled out to those with claims evidenced by writing, social superiority, ancient usage or bribery.^ In Britain, thousands of ‘Acts of Enclosure’ were passed between 16. Afternoon of an Autocrat *(1956) is set in Suffolk, in the fictitious village of Clevely at the time of its ‘enclosure’. ![]() ![]() Norah Lofts (1904 to 1983), mostly forgotten in this twilight of the gods, was a popular English novelist. ![]()
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