CHAP. XII.
Sheweth the Lands capable of Enclosure, and the Method of ••t, how it Advanceth the Pub∣lick Weal and all particular Interests.
ANd to this end consider that all Lands capable of Enclosure, are either Common Fields and Arable Lands, Mens proper Right and Inheritance, or else Common Pasturing upon Heaths, Moor; Marshs, or Forrests Lands.
For the Enclosure of your common field, Arable Land, I lay down this Direction; All Interests to be provided for, which I conceive may be reduced to these four.
- 1. First, either Lord of the soyl or Landlord, or,
- 2. Secondly, the Minister to the People, or else
- 3. Thirdly, the Freeholder Farmer or Tenant, or lastly and
- 4. Fourthly, the Poor Labourer or Cottier▪
All which having some Interests more or less, shall be se∣riously considered of.
Therefore I begin with the last, the Poor Cottier, or day Labourer, and to provide for him, because he hath ever been oppressed if any, and last or least provided for, And look what right or Interest he hath in Common, I'll first allot out his proportion into severall with the better, rather than with the worse, a Proportion out of every mans Inheritauce, and