The Queen's fears and apprehensions were exaggerated by the enclosure acts that drove sheep onto the land, and peasants off it, as described to her by John Manwood in his treatise A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest (1592); they circumscribed the royal prerogative.
The Queen's apprehensions and concerns were intensified by the enclosure acts that confined sheep to the land and expelled peasants from it, as explained to her by John Manwood in his 1592 treatise A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest; these laws restricted the royal authority.