5. YORKSHIRE- 6i 



In tovvnfhips of a more uniform foil, good 

 land, fit for arable, has been fct out as com- 

 mon pafture : for in the days when town- 

 fhips were laid out, it would have been Icfs 

 poffible to have cultivated and manured the 

 common fields of a townfliip without a com- 

 mon pafture, than it would now be, when 

 the ufes of clover and vetches are known, to 

 manage a farm entirely under the plow, with- 

 out any pofllbility of purchafing manure. 



It is therefore evident, that common pas- 

 tures and common fields are in their orio-inal 

 intention, and ever have been in their ufe, as 

 infeparable as animal life and food : — it was 

 neceilary to keep working ftock to till the 

 fields, and almoft as neceflary to have other 

 live ftock to confume the ftraw^, and to raife 

 manure. And it may be fafely drawn as an 

 inference, that the herbage of the common 

 paftures of a given townftiip belong, /;/ thsir 

 original intention^ to the arable and meadow 

 la'iids of that townfliip : for, without them, 

 the former muft have lain in perpetual fal- 

 low, and the hay of the latter have been uft;- 

 lefs. Confequently, by the original intenticn, 

 every houfe which occupied a -portion of the 



arable 



