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Mr. Fawcett this change was most largely due. It 
was his dogged perseverance, in 1869, which forced the 
question into public notice, and which compelled legis- 
lation for amendment of the Inclosure Act of 1845 in a 
manner so beneficial to the labouring people and to the 
public.* 
* For a more detailed account of Mr. Fawcett’s personal share 
in the movement for the preservation of Commons, see Mr. Leslie 
Stephen’s ‘ Life of Henry Fawcett,” chapter vii. (Smith, Elder, & Co., 
1885). But for this I should have amplified this chapter. 
