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 SECTION XLVL 



The Author's Opinion upon a General InclofurS 

 of Commons ; proving Commons in their pre* 

 /era State to be Nuifances, and a great Injury 

 to the Community at large. 



SOME knowledge of commons will mod 

 probably be allowed me. The reader may re- 

 collect that in the Introduction to this Work I 

 informed him o' my having lived at Afgafby 

 in Lincolnfhire : in confequence of the farm I 

 there occupied, I enjoyed a right of common on 

 the Eaft and IVeji-Fen; and I had ample op- 

 portunity of informing myfelf both as to the 

 ufe and abufe of commons, from being one of 

 the land-jury at a court held twice in every 

 year, once for the purpofe of hearing com- 

 plaints, and once for impofi ng a fine for abufes, 

 fuch as flocking without right, &c« 



About Lady-day I fent into the Weft-Fen 

 three hundred hogs (that is, fheep one year old, 

 which nave never been (horn). I hired afhep- 

 herd to attend them, and put them on the fame 

 walk the farmer ufed who occupied the farm 

 prior to my coming to it. In lefs than a week, 



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