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The difficulties attending the inclofing or even 
laying in feveralty, the commonable lands fo pecu- 
liarly fituated as great part of the diftrict is, will 
be afterwards explained. 
-GENERAL CUSTOM OF FEEDING THE COMMON- 
ABLE LANDS. 
Tue cuftom of feeding the commonable lands 
varies in different parts of this diftrict, as well as 
the quantity of {tock each commoner (or occupier 
of a yard-land) has aright to put; but in general 
‘jt is as follows: 
. Sheep commons.—The common fheep down is 
open for the common flock during fummer and 
autumn. The unfown field (or fummer field) is 
open till it is all ploughed for wheat. The fheep 
have then only the down, till the harveft is over 
and the other fields are clear. They then have 
thofe fields and the down until the winter obliges 
_the owners to give them hay. Until this period 
they are folded on the arable fields in a common 
fold: but when they begin to eat hay, every com- 
moner finds his own fold and his own hay; the 
common fhepherd feeding and penning the whole. 
When the ewes are near yeaning, the owners take 
them honie to their inclofed meadows; and by the 
time all the ewes have yeaned, the water mncadlows 
are ready to take them to grafs. 
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