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privilege has rendered them move valuable 

 than modern houfes of equal (ize ; and this 

 difference in value is the real intereft they 

 have in the commons. 



It is the moll they ever had, or can of right 

 have, while the commons remain open. For 

 a mere houfe without land has neither plow 

 to work, manure to raife, nor fodder to con- 

 fume, and cannot in the ordinary courfe of 

 hufbandry make any ufc whatever of the 

 herbage of a common. 



And with refped: to the privilege of pte- 

 fentation, it is equally vague in the owner of 

 an ancient houfe to lay claim to an equalized 

 fliare of the lands of a common, becaufe by 

 a power (no matter now whether ufurped or 

 not) of enfranchiiing the lands of grangers 

 to a fhare of the herbage, as it would be in a 

 lay-prefenter of a living to lay claim to the 

 benefice, becaufe he has the advowfon. 

 "Whatever the advowfon is worth, fo much 

 intereft the prefenter of the herbase of a 

 common, or the profits of a living, has in 

 that common, or that living. 



From thefe premifes we may Infer, that 

 rozVi neither an ancient houfe without lands, 



of 



