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Ma B 213/1-8 : Copy correspondence about proposed enclosure of Laxton and Eakring, 1844.
would have been equally advantageous, to Lord Manvers himself, & the other proprietors in both parishes, & given increased facilities to their Enclosure, Lord Scarborough considering an Enclosure to be as essential for the benefit of all the Land owners in the one Parish as in the other.
His view was that by means of previous exchange, or agreements to exchange in each, such a preponderance & consolidation of Property would have been given to Lord Manvers in Laxton & to himself in Eakring as would have enabled each to effect those necessary exchanges with the other proprietors as would have almost amounted to an enclosure of each, & certainly must have decreased both expense & time in making the other divisions & fencing the undividing property. As Lord Manvers however entertains a different view of the subject, the matter necessarily ends.
I cannot however see what concession has been made by
