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" paflurage might be perpetuated; then, under thefe circum- 

 «« fiances, perhaps, they may not admit of much more im- 

 " provement. But very different are the commons of a 

 " furze and heath production ; nothing fhort of cultivation, 

 « can make them properly productive. But, as I have taken 

 " the liberty to addrefs the Board, on commons of this de- 

 " fcription, I muft beg to refer them to what I have already 

 " faid, and what I propofe farther to fay, in another addrefs 

 << to them refpefting Mofwold. I feel an ardent wifh to 

 " fee the extended wafte Mofwold cultivated, (which is 

 «« partly within the boundary of this city) and which is like- 

 «« wife a part of fifteen country parifhes. I was thinking that 

 «♦ in inclofing it, that it might be a fubjeft of policy, as well 

 •« as juftice, to appropriate for the cottage poor, folely, a 

 M common, from thirty to forty acres, to each parifh ; this 

 "would be a facrifice that might befpeak their acquiefcence, 

 " and appeafe a poffible difpofition to turbulence. Thefe 

 *' conceffions, I conceive, would not be a twentieth part of 

 "the whole; perhaps what is in the precincts of Norwich, 

 ■« may have a rental referved for an annual diftribution to its 

 « { poor inhabitants." 



This interefting fubject of commons, is much indebted to the 

 two gentlemen, whofe obfervations I have here inferted ; the 

 humanity and good policy of their tendency, are equally to be 

 admired, and I make no doubt, but fomc material advantage 

 will be derived from their ufeful hints. 



