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herbage of townlhips, fays, " by that is to be 

 ** undcrftood the common palKire of the 

 *' town whereupon the herdman keepeth the 

 *' tenant's cattle j for it may be fo good that 

 *' the tenants ntcd not to have any feveral 

 ** pafcurc" [importing in this place ilintcd 

 pafture] ; '' but that their common pafturc 

 " fhould be able to hud all their cattle, borh 

 *' horfes, mares, beads, and llicep : and fo 

 " it was of old time, that all the lands, mea- 

 ** dows, and paflures lay open and unclofed. 

 *' And then was their tenements much better 

 " and cheaper than they be now ; tor the 

 " moft part of the lords have enclofed their 

 ** demcfne lands and meadows, and keep 

 *' them in feveralty ; fo that their tenants 

 *' have no common with them therein." la 

 this ftate the cultivated lands of the kingdom 

 appear to have lain in Fitzherbert's day. 

 For in his laft chapter, the fubjed of which 

 is, *' How to make a townlhip that is worth 

 " twenty marks a-ycar worth twenty pounds 

 " a-year," he recommends inclofure •, — not 

 as a known improvement to be perfcvered in, 

 but as a fcheme eligible to be adopted. 



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