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Page 87
The application of Clearing away of bushes , and other fire is as usetul and
effective to land as rubbith , is not commonly done ; nole that of water . There are
in Suffolk , and ant hills rarely cut ; drains made many thousands of acres of poor
, wet ...
The application of Clearing away of bushes , and other fire is as usetul and
effective to land as rubbith , is not commonly done ; nole that of water . There are
in Suffolk , and ant hills rarely cut ; drains made many thousands of acres of poor
, wet ...
Page 322
The a season , and thereby eating up the most considerable part of this land is in
poor cottagers rights , had address & ftate of pasture , and cf . rery good enough
falsely to represent the case , quality for feeding , or fatting , cattle and to prevail ...
The a season , and thereby eating up the most considerable part of this land is in
poor cottagers rights , had address & ftate of pasture , and cf . rery good enough
falsely to represent the case , quality for feeding , or fatting , cattle and to prevail ...
Page 325
Proprietors of land , do folicited from a landlord ; even exactnot all of them
tonsider this matter in ing rent on the day it becomes paya true light , and when
they can ad- able , would be an inconveniency , vance the annual income of their
which ...
Proprietors of land , do folicited from a landlord ; even exactnot all of them
tonsider this matter in ing rent on the day it becomes paya true light , and when
they can ad- able , would be an inconveniency , vance the annual income of their
which ...
Page 390
Although the greatand for this , one head carter , with est part of this district
appears to be insuch a number of boys as may oc- closed , and it contains no
very extencasionally be wanted , and one head five entire tracts of waste land ,
yet ...
Although the greatand for this , one head carter , with est part of this district
appears to be insuch a number of boys as may oc- closed , and it contains no
very extencasionally be wanted , and one head five entire tracts of waste land ,
yet ...
Page 391
In lected . fact , the open lands of this district , The tract of commons which are
small as they appear to be , when ... Weft- pared with the land already inclosed ,
bury toward Crichlade , are detached yet , being capable of such vaft amendand
...
In lected . fact , the open lands of this district , The tract of commons which are
small as they appear to be , when ... Weft- pared with the land already inclosed ,
bury toward Crichlade , are detached yet , being capable of such vaft amendand
...
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