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Those new-comers who bought the lands bought 

 also the farms and cottages, together with the 

 freehold and copyhold property of all who would 

 sell" it, and who did not in all cases quite under- 

 stand how much they had parted with. They 

 were destined to find out later how impossible 

 it is to sell a thing and to keep it ; and that 

 having sold their property, all rights, either free- 

 hold or copyhold, belonged now to the purchasers. 



From very early times there have existed free 

 to all, without let or hindrance, the simple com- 

 mon rights of grazing stock, and the right of range 

 for swine in the mast season, subject in some cases 

 to a nominal heriot to the lord of the manor upon 

 whose property the owner's cottage might be sit- 

 uated. These common rights belonged to the 

 commoners, who had never from the very first 

 been in touch with the new-comers. This was 

 not surprising, for it was evident that some of 

 these new-comers thought that the beautiful coun- 

 try, with its sturdy inhabitants, had been much 

 honoured by their arrival — which illusion was soon 

 dispelled, however. 



Certain landowners who had no right to do so 



