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pofes to improve by inclofure, he fays, " It 

 «« is undoubted, that to every townfliip, that 

 «» ftandeth in tillage in the plain country, 

 *' there be arable lands to plow and fow, and 

 ** Icvs to tie or tedder horfes and mares 

 " upon, and common paftnre to keep and 

 *• pafture cattle, beafts, and Iheep upon ; 

 " and alfo meadow ground to get hay upon." 

 In another part of the fame treatiie, chap- 

 ter 4. " Of foreign paftures that be com- 

 " men," he fays, *' This is a dark letter to 

 " be tinderilood withou'- a better declara- 

 '^' tion, for it may be underftood three ways. 

 *' In many towns, where clofes and pailures 

 *« lie in feveraky, there is commonly a com- 

 *■■' mon clofe taken in, out of the commons 

 " or fields, by the tenants of the town, for 

 " their oxen or kine, or other caccie, in 

 '* which clofe every man is ftinted, and fet 

 ** to a certainty how many beafts he fhall 

 " have in the fame, and of what manner of 



** beafts they fhall be. Another mmner 



*' of common is moft commonly in plain 

 " champion countries where the cattle go 

 *' d:;ily before the herdman, and lyeth near 

 ^l adjoining to the common fields ; and it 



t^ may 



