122 The Landed Interest. 



manors, 620 in number, received as compensa- 

 tion 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 allot- 

 ments 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. 

 Oualitv -^^ ^^^^^ '^ ^^^^ largest and most general 



nation of' distribution of land into small properties that 

 whom^ l^as taken place in this country in recent times, 



waste . , . , , - , , . , 



lands it was desirable to know the quality and occu- 



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 

 an average can be accepted, the proportionate 



