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 Survey of Essex, p. 9. 



BY MESSRS. GRIGG. 



Our Wafte Lands, including the Forefts, may be 

 tfftimated at full fifteen thoufand acres; the greater 

 part of which is as capable of producing corn, after 

 a certain time for neccffary improvements, as the 

 adjoining lands, and would in mofl: inftances, it is 

 prefumed, be made profitable to, the community, 

 could fome method, fuch, for inftance, as paffing a 

 general adt of parli-iment, to afcertain the rights of 

 lords of manors, tithe-owners, and the feveral te- 

 nants ; which, it is thought, might be done by pro- 

 portioning the tenant's claim to the nature and ex- 

 tent, or annual value of his tenements, held of the 

 manor to which the wafte belongs, and then enable 

 the lord, who is moft frequently more enlightened, 

 and better able to advance the various expences of 

 inclofing and other neceffary improvements, to pur- 

 chafe thefe rights, as a jury fliould value them, and 

 thus make it worth his while to ereft farm-houfes 

 and other conveniences, as, without fome fuch power 

 of purchafing, the waftes would be found in moft 

 places too fmall to admit of as many divifions as 

 there would be claims given in, or the ground would 

 be allotted to people, unable, from a want of ex- 

 perience, or property, to render their little portions 



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