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never been known to exceed 124, which was the 

 number in 1745; in 1777, they were only 121; and 

 at this time they amount to 174. This rapid increafe 

 I attribute chiefly to the recent improvements made 

 in the parilh, by inclofmg all the common field land, 

 and by converting moft of the common into arable 

 land and plantations. The parifli has no particular 

 connexion with any other, and therefore its own in- 

 creafe of labour and produce mufl be the principal 

 caufe at leafl; of this flriking alteration. The parilh 

 of Wyburn, which remains uninclofed in this neigh- 

 bourhood, belonging to Lord Walpole, who pof- 

 fcfles, in a very eminent degree, the three great 

 charafterifticks of a country gentleman, a good ma- 

 giftrate, a good neighbour, and a good landlord, is 

 the mod like what Felbrigg was before its inclofure; 

 confifting of about the fame quantity of commons 

 and common fields; but I do not find the population 

 there has increafed of late, which is a corroborating 

 proof of inclofures being favourable to population. 

 If, then, inclofing be found fo beneficial, every obv 

 flruftion to it ought to be removed. In the fiffl: 

 place, were there one general Aft of Parlip.raent; 

 formed, under which any parilh that could agree in 

 itfclf fhould be able to take fhelter, or even any 

 two or more perfons, agreeing upon any exchange 

 of .land, or a feparation of a mixed intereft, whereby 

 the inclofing of fuch land was the refuh, fhould, 

 upon the payment of a fraall confidcration, receive 



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