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in Wiltthire, putting the lands in “ Severalty”) fo 
few alterations of that kind have taken place in a 
diftri abounding with intelligent, well-informed 
farmers, and they deferve particular confideration. 
For it is a fact, that though the modern improve- 
ments in hufbandry cannot be adopted ¢o any extent, 
in lands lying in a ftate of tenantry, yet a full half 
of the manors of this diftrict are ftill fubject, either 
wholly or in part, to the fame abfurd cuftoms of 
commonage as they were two hundred years ago. 
The prefent Diftritution of the Lands in ibis Diftrie 
may, in general, be divided into Two Kinds: 
ift. The farms in /everalty (or thofe not fubje& to 
rights of common.) Thefe are in general from 
100]. to 300l. per annum; in fome inftances 
lower than rool. but few fo high as 4ool. 
ad. The tenantry yard-lands (or cuftomary tene- 
ments) which are ftill fubject to rights of com- 
.mon. Thefe are in general from 18]. to 251. 
per annum; fome as high as gol. per annum; 
great numbers of which are ftill occupied jingly, 
although confolidations of them are every day 
taking place. 
ANCIENT DISTRIBUTION OF THE DISTRICT. 
Tue ancient diftribution of the greateft part of 
this diftrict was in the following way : 
In 
