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ages and in the entering wintering Fattening Sheep &c Could have no allowance offerred concerning at all for their Right of Common, as they produce no winter Fodder whatever for the use of maintenance of Cattle to be put up on the Common in Summer.
4 because in that Case a very different Proportion of allotment must be made to Land in meadow in Pasture in Arable both or in Common [field?] Tilth, the meadow which produces nothing but Fodder all the [indecipherable] must have the Largest proportion of Common. the pasture the next, the arable Lands a smaller then the Pasture & Common Field Land in the habitual Course of Meat Bone & Fallow, much less than ordinary Arable, because it Produces fodder for the winter only one year in three & that of a Quality very little nutritious.
5. because the man who possesses Land Covered with wood has as much right to Convert this Wood Land into arable & Pasture as the man who Sows beans or Hemp has to do the Same & will Certainly do so, whenever it appears to him likely to be more profitable under ordinary Agricultural management