 | Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, Arthur Young - 1809 - 470 ページ
...whole surrounding country demand it imperiously. The vicinity is filled with poachers, deer-stealers, thieves, and pilferers of every kind : offences of almost every description abound so much, that the offender* are a terror to all quiet and well-disposed persons ;' and Oxford gaol would be uninhabited,... | |
 | George Roberson, John Richard Green - 1859 - 146 ページ
...its 7,000 acres, filling its vicinity with "poachers, deer-stealers, and pilferers of every kind. . . Oxford gaol would be uninhabited were it not for this fertile source of crimes." Most stubborn of all was Otmoor, where the " commoners" were backed by the opposition of Lord Abingdon,... | |
 | Charles William Boase - 1890 - 258 ページ
...over 7,000 acres, filling its vicinity with poachers, deerstealers, and pilferers of every kind. ' Oxford Gaol would be uninhabited, were it not for this fertile source of crime.' The extent of wild country, too, naturally favoured the highwaymen. On Otmoor the commoners... | |
 | 1900 - 290 ページ
...Young gave this as one of the reasons for the enclosure of the Forest, going so far as to say that " Oxford gaol would be uninhabited were it not for this fertile source of crimes." White, in his Selborne, we may remember, gives somewhat similar testimony with regard to the poaching... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1901 - 496 ページ
...7000 acres, filling its vicinity with "poachers, deer-stealers, and pilferers of every kind. . . . Oxford gaol would be uninhabited were it not for this fertile source of crimes." Most stubborn of all was Otmoor, where the " commoners " were backed by the opposition of Lord Abingdon,... | |
 | Alice Stopford Green - 1901 - 344 ページ
...7000 acres, filling its vicinity with "poachers, deer-stealers, and pilferers of every kind. . . . Oxford gaol would be uninhabited were it not for this fertile source of crimes." 1 Most stubborn of all was Otmoor, where the " commoners " were backed by the opposition of Lord Abingdon,... | |
 | Mary Sturge Gretton - 1902 - 328 ページ
...surrounding country demand enclosure imperiously. The vicinity is filled with poachers, deer-stealers, thieves and pilferers of every kind : offences of...uninhabited were it not for this fertile source of crimes.' As an agriculturist, Young's authority is great, but when he strays outside his own domain his own... | |
 | Mary Sturge Gretton - 1902 - 318 ページ
...surrounding country demand enclosure imperiously. The vicinity is filled with poachers, deer-stealers, thieves and pilferers of every kind: offences of almost...uninhabited were it not for this fertile source of crimes.' As an agriculturist, Young's authority is great, but when he strays outside his own domain his own... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1912 - 530 ページ
...latter district was necessary on moral grounds. " The vicinity is filled with poachers, deer-stealers, thieves, and pilferers of every kind ; offences of...uninhabited, were it not for this fertile source of crimes." Nearly one hundred parishes still remained in open-fields. " It is," says Young, speaking of open-field... | |
 | John Orr - 1916 - 292 ページ
...The vicinity is filled E 2 with poachers, deer-stealers, thieves and pilferers of every kind, . . . and Oxford gaol would be uninhabited, were it not for this fertile source of crimes.' x It may be unfortunate, but the enclosure of Wychwood seems neither to have filled the pockets of... | |
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Most stubborn of all was Otmoor, where the " commoners " were backed by the opposition of Lord Abingdon, and enjoyed the low flat, with its periodical inundations, its " rot," and " moor-evil, 
