122 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



purchasers. The lords of the manors, 620 in 

 number, received as compensation for their 

 rights in the soil, on an average, about one- 

 fifteenth of the acreage of the wastes. These 

 wastes of manors were, under the Act of 1845, 

 made subject to the setting out of allotments 

 for public purposes, and in this respect were 

 distinct from the commonable lands, which are 

 undivided private property, and were not made 

 subject to public allotments. 

 Quality As this is the largest and most general 



and occu- 

 pation of distribution of land into small properties that 



persons to 



whom has taken place in this country in recent times, 



waste 



lands it was desirable to know the quality and occu- 



passed. 



pation of the persons into whose hands these 

 lands have passed. To discover this, the legal 

 description both of allottees and of purchasers 

 of sale allotments, was taken from inclosures 

 in which that description is given, one in each 

 of the following counties, viz., Bucks, Cumber- 

 land, Chester, Devon, Essex, Hants, Herts, 

 Lancaster, Norfolk, Oxford, Stafford, Sussex, 

 Worcester, and, in Wales, Carnarvon and Car- 

 marthen. Upon this basis, and so far as such 



