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mankind pursue, but never relished any so much 

 as the pleasure arising from the progress of my 

 village.' 



W. Mavor, in his edition of Tusser, makes this 

 observation : ' Bind the poor man by his interest as 

 well as his duty to the place where he lives, and he 

 will feel the pride of deserving well.' 



One hopes, and believes, that the following strong 

 language of Nourse, in his Campania JFcelix, printed 

 in 1700, applied then (as it may do now) to very few : 

 * We may take leave to glance a little at the behaviour 

 of some Lords of Manors, whose bailiffs many times 

 wheedle in the cottagers, allowing them liberty to 

 build upon the waste, and to inclose ground perhaps ; 

 giving them a tree or two to carry on the design, 

 upon condition they will take a lease of such cottages 

 for three lives, paying only some sixpenny rent ; upon 

 the expiration of which term, his hungry lordship 

 swallows the poor cottage, with all its members and 

 dependences, at a bit, which, by the sweat and labour 

 of the poor defunct and his predecessors, was improved 

 to a kind of competency out of nothing, whilst the 

 remains of the poor family are exposed to the naked 

 world, or else forced to pay a good round fine for the 

 renewal of that which was so dearly purchased by 

 their own pains and industry ; by which sly methods, 

 the commonage will be engrossed in time, and many 



