Note 163 — Chapter IV · LANDED POSSESSION. THE EÐEL, HÍD OR ALOD.
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A square of 220 yards would form a field of ten acres, which is not at all oversized. Since the happy downfall of the corn-laws, which were a bonus upon bad husbandry, hedges are being rooted up in every quarter, and forty or fifty acres may now be seen in single fields, where they were not thought of a few years ago.