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Mr. Fawcett this change was most largely due. It 

 was his dogged perseverance, in 1869, which forced the 

 question into public notice, and which compelled legis- 

 lation for amendment of the Inclosure Act of 1845 in a 

 manner so beneficial to the labouring people and to the 

 public* 



* For a more detailed account of Mr. Fawcett's personal share 

 in the movement for the preservation of Commons, see Mr. Leslie 

 Stephen's " Life of Henry Fawcett," chapter vii. (Smith, Elder, &, Co., 

 1885). But for this I should have amplified this chapter. 



