Common-good: or, The improvement of commons, forrests, and chases, by inclosure.: Wherein the advantage of the poor, the common plenty of all, and the increase and preservation of timber, with other things of common concernment, are considered. / By S.T.

Title

Common-good: or, The improvement of commons, forrests, and chases, by inclosure.: Wherein the advantage of the poor, the common plenty of all, and the increase and preservation of timber, with other things of common concernment, are considered. / By S.T.

Author

S. T. (Silvanus Taylor)

Publication

London :: Printed for Francis Tyton, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the three Daggers neer the Middle-Temple gate,

1652.

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Subject terms

Inclosures -- England

Poor -- England

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE Supreme Authority OF THIS NATION THE Parliament of England; The onely proper Councellors for COMMON-GOOD.
• The Contents.
• Common-Good: OR The Improvement of Commons, Forrests, and Chases, by Inclosure.
  • SECT. I. In which are set down the general Exceptions against In∣closures of Commons, with brief Answers thereunto.
    • The Objections are these:
  • SECT. II. In which is set forth the several Sorts of COMMONS.
  • SECT. III. Wherein the Common-fields neer Towns and Villages are treated of.
  • SECT. IIII. Of Commons in rich Lowe grounds.
  • SECT. V. Of Commons which are plain Upland grounds.
  • SECT. VI. Of Commons which are apt for Wood, and over-spread with Bushes.
  • SECT. VII. Commons cumbred with Thorns, Briers, Heath, Moss, &c.
  • SECT. VIII. Which treateth of Forests and Chases.
  • SECT. IX. The way and manner of inclosing Commons.
  • SECT. X. Treating of the manner of inclosing Forrests and Chaces, with some brief directions for planting and preserving Wood, that so it may be a provision for our Navy to all Generations.
• AN APPENDIX, SHEWING The chiefe cause of wandring poor in England, and the remedies therof.