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exceed what they now yield, to the extent of many 

 thoufand pounds a year, while the additional number 

 of hands, which would be requifite for the cultiva- 

 tion of thefe farms, could not be Ihort of 1300 or 

 1 400. The advantages, therefore, both of a publick 

 and private nature, which mufl neceffarily refult from 

 a divifion of this common, are fo obvious as to re- 

 quire no illuftration. 



The perfon who is moft materially interefled, is 

 Earl FiTZWiLLiAM, though a great many others 

 are, to a certain extent, concerned. From the truly 

 refpe£lable character of that noble lord, there can be 

 no doubt that a proper application made to him, 

 from all thofe having interefl in the divifion, would 

 be attended with the befl: confequences, as, from his 

 difpofition to be ferviceable to thofe who refide in 

 his neighbourhood, he would cheerfully embrace fo 

 favourable an opportunity of materially promoting 

 their interefl:. But as the whole inhabitants of thefe 

 thirty-two pariflies may be faid to be in fome de- 

 gree concerned, and as it would anfwer no good 

 purpofe to call together fo numerous a body of peo- 

 ple, it might therefore be proper that a meeting 

 fliould be held in each parifli, and powers granted 

 to one of the mofl: refpeclable of the inhabitants 

 to meet a perfon dcjiuted by each of the other pa- 

 riflies, in order to make the application, and procure 

 his lordftiip's confent to the meafure, and if obtained, 



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