Note 94 — Chapter XVII · THE PROGRESS OF ENCLOSURE WITHOUT PARLIAMENTARY SANCTION.

Arthur Young found the practice still prevalent in Northamptonshire more than seventy years later: “they collect all the cow-dung from their fields and daub it in lumps, barns, and stables, to dry for fuel” (“Eastern Tour,” Vol. I., p. 48). Edward Lawrence speaks of Yorkshire (evidently the East Riding only is meant) and Lincolnshire as the counties where the practice prevailed in 1727 (“The Duty of a Steward to his Lord,” Article 3).