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Journal of the House of Lords
… straighten a Watercourse, to alter a Road, or exchange a Field. If a Power could be given, under due Regulations to …
Journal of the House of Lords
… to seize any Opportunity which affords them a fairer Field for their Talents and their Labour. Are there not …
Journal of the House of Lords
… but I think I can offer some Reasons why it has not. A Field is appropriated to the Poor, for which they pay only … what you mean by Common? Uncultivated Land in the open Field. It is in some instances Heath; but in some of the Fen …
Journal of the House of Lords
… under which you have done it? My Parish is an open Field Parish, and we have Seventy or Eighty Acres of Grass …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of the Poor Rate. Then it is free of Rate? Yes; it is a Field of only Twenty-five Acres, which I let to the Poor. … for Dinner; they take a small Piece of Bacon out to the Field with them generally for Dinner. Then, perhaps, the Poor … Difference. How many Half Acres have you let? The whole Field contains Twenty-five Acres, and there are Seventy …
Journal of the House of Lords
… being again sent round with a Paper for Signature. A Field of Five Acres, or not exceeding Twenty, shall be rented …
Journal of the House of Lords