[493] I.e. lands over which there is right of common for half the year between Michaelmas and Lady Day or Lammas and Lady Day.
[494] This referred to roads only, see Act.
[495] It took twenty-nine years.
[496] Sir James Lowther, afterwards Lord Lowther, who had originally petitioned for enclosure, had died in 1802. He was succeeded by his cousin, Wordsworth’s patron.
[497] These allotments were fenced by the other proprietors and did not bear any of the expenses of the Act.
[498] Including 8 acres 1 rood 5 perches for rights of soil.
[499] Nine of them women.
[500] See p. 55.
[501] See Petition, p. 379, where nearly a hundred are said to do so.
[502] Billingsley’s Somerset, p. 191.