On the other hand, land in England had for a long time been unusually concentrated, with big landlords holding an unusually large proportion of land. This concentrated landownership meant that English landlords were able to use their property in new and distinctive ways. What they lacked in “extra-economic” powers of surplus extraction they more than made up for by their increasing “economic” powers.
England played a huge role in the rise of agrarian capitalism. Landlords in possession of large portions of land would rent it out to farmers/workers. They were paying for access to the means of production, reproduction, and labor. They themselves didn't own any of it. They were competing against each other to accumulate more produce in order to keep up with economic rents and maximize profits (market imperatives).