Puritan ministers revered and publicized the work of pamphleteers, such as Edward Misselden, Thomas Mun, Nicholas Barbon, and William Petty, advocates for greater freedom in monetary policy, international trade, and enclosure. Through enclosure—the termination of rights to the commons, the transformation of customary land tenures into rents, the fencing of common land, and the dispossession of tenants—Puritan nobles and gentry hastened the capitalist transformation of English agriculture.
