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fequence Is, that only eight cows were kept by cot- 

 tagers in Afliwell in the year 1 794. Thefe cottagers 

 have alfo a right to lead (as they term it) their cows 

 on the baulks and wades interfperfed in the common 

 fields at all times, and while the crops are on the 

 ground. 



The exercife of this right is the fource of much 

 injury to crops, cultivated with great care and ex- 

 pence, and which have afforded bread to the nume- 

 rous poor of the parifh employed in weeding them. 

 But this right, though produftive of little good and 

 much mifchief, mufl not be wantonly annihilated ; for 

 the cottager of Afliwell, who has neither the means 

 to purchafe a cow, nor provender to feed her in 

 winter, values himfelf on his common right; he looks 

 with an eye of jealoufy on a proprietor or occupier, 

 if he inclofes a very fmall part of the known land, 

 or ploughs but a fmgle furrow from a baulk or 

 wafle. 



If the cottager cannot purchafe now, he cheriflies 

 the hope that he may be able to purchafe hereafter: 

 this hope may never be realized, but it is his pre- 

 fent, and perhaps his future fubfiitute for a cow. A 

 majority in number and value of the land-owners in 

 Afliwell, might, on application to parliament, obtain 

 an aft to inclofe, and to allot a portion of land to 

 the cottagers adequate to the value of all their com- 

 mon rights, but not adequate to what they now are 

 in their idea, could they exercife themj they would 



therefore, 



