28 July 1887: “Local and Leeds cattle smallholders are abusing the (feudal) right to pasturage in Pontefract Park”
Leeds Mercury. 1887/07/28. The rights of pasturage in Pontefract Park. Leeds. Get it:
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Our correspondent states that the Park Trustees have discovered that certain parties have been sending six or seven animals for agistment in the park, the Act only entitling them to send one. During the past week certain inhabitants have been served with demand notices to pay sums reaching up to £12 and £14 for having illegally stocked the park with cattle. It is stated that cattle have been brought from Leeds and other places to pasture for six months in the park, depriving bona fide inhabitants of their just right of agistment.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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Our correspondent states that the Park Trustees have discovered that certain parties have been sending six or seven animals for agistment in the park, the Act only entitling them to send one. During the past week certain inhabitants have been served with demand notices to pay sums reaching up to £12 and £14 for having illegally stocked the park with cattle. It is stated that cattle have been brought from Leeds and other places to pasture for six months in the park, depriving bona fide inhabitants of their just right of agistment.
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