Norfolk [Young, Norfolk, 1804, pp. 82, 86, 94, 135, 156]. Bintrey and Twiford.[342] Enclosed 1795.
Poor. There were 20, acres allotted for fuel, let by the parish. There were 46 commonable rights; the whole divided according to value; very few little proprietors; but small occupiers suffered.
Brancaster.[343] Enclosed 1755.
Poor. Very well off; Barrow-hills, a common of 65 acres, allotted to them; and each dwelling-house has a right to keep the two cows or heifers; or a mare and foal; or two horses; and also to cut furze.
Cranworth, Remieston, Southborough.[344] Enclosed 1796.
Poor. They kept geese on the common, of which they are deprived. But in fuel they are benefited; an allotment not to exceed 1⁄20 let, and the rent applied in coals for all not occupying above 5l. a year: this is to the advantage of those at Southborough, having enough allowed for their consumption; at Cranworth the poor are more numerous, and the coals of little use.
Ludham.[345]
The commons were enclosed in 1801: all cottagers that claimed had allotments; and one for fuel to the whole; but the cottages did not belong to the poor; the allotments in general went to the larger proprietors, and the poor consequently were left, in this respect, destitute; many cows were kept before, few now. All the poor very much against the measure.
Sayham and Ovington.[346] Enclosed 1800.
Poor.—An allotment of not less than 50l. a year, for distributing to the poor in coals, was ordered by the act; it let for 98l. There were 100 commonable right houses. They used to sell a cottage of 3l. a year, with a right, for 80l. For each, four acres were allotted: and the cottage with this allotment would now sell for 160l. And what is very remarkable, every man who proved to the Commissioners that they had been in the habit of keeping stock on the common, was considered as possessing a common-right and had an allotment in lieu of it. Nor was it an unpopular measure, for there were only two men against it from the first to the last.