Note 101 — Chapter IV · ENCLOSURE (2)
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This scheme marks a great advance on an earlier scheme which Young published in the first volume of the Annals of Agriculture. He then proposed that public money should be spent in settling cottagers or soldiers on the waste, giving them their holding free of rent and tithes for three lives, at the end of which time the land they had redeemed was to revert to its original owners.