ENCLOSING. 125 



Titiie. — Remains subjcdt. 



Rates. — Ofbte years is. gd. ro 2s. in the pound. 



Expenses. — 1 1 74^* 



Poor. — There are fifty-five commonable right-houses, 

 of which none belonged to poor people ; but many to h't- 

 tle tradesmen and small occupieis. The really poor and 

 distressed people had no stock on the fields or common, fur- 

 ther than geese, and could suffer by the enclosure to no 

 other amount ; abundantly made up to them by an ampler 

 and better paid employment. The common-rights them- 

 selves were worth very little before the enclosure, which 

 gave two head of large cattle per right to feed on the com- 

 mon of 209 acres. As to fuel, the poor had no right to cut 

 flag, &c. on the common before, nor of course since: 

 they burn coals, supplied by the parish. To the common- 

 right houses were assigned for each right, tvi'o acres of 

 middling land, or one and half of good, for open field 

 sliackage and feeding ; the right to the stinted common, 

 remaining: there are from twelve to fifteen little and very 

 comfortable ptoprietors and renters of small plots, from 

 two to ten acres ; who have cows and some corn, and 

 what they like to cultivate. A remarkable instance, and 

 I cordially wish it was universal. Most of them have two 

 cows ; some more. 



Population. — This register, like that of Snettisiiam, kept 

 previous to 1784 so ill, with such a gap of years, as to be 

 useless. 



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