5. YORKSHIRE. 99 



2. Inclofure by private commijfion. Some en- 

 tire townihips (except perhaps the unftinted 

 commons), and many flinted paftures, have 

 been laid out by commifTioners, chofen 

 unanimoufly by the fcveral interefls con- 

 cerned, without foliciting the afliftance of 

 Parliament. 



By this means the diftinfb properties are 

 laid together, in well-fized and well-propor- 

 tioned InclofureSjVvith proper roads and drift- 

 v/ays ; and this without the expcnce, the 

 inconveniency, orthe /^^zar^ attending an ap- 

 plication to Parliament. 



3. Inclofure by A5i of Parliament. By this 

 expedient the advantages above-mentioned 

 are obtained in their fulleft extent ; but they 

 are unavoidably burdened with a train of at- 

 tendant evils, which render this mode of In- 

 clofure much lefs eligible than that of in- 

 clofing by general confent. 



Tbis^ however, is frequently impra<5lica- 

 ble : obflinacy has its adherents in every 

 townfliip ; and where various interefls are 

 concerned, as in the cafe of dividing unftint- 

 ed commons, it is fcarcely poftible that every 

 intereft, and every individual of each inte- 

 H 2 tcreft, 



