Season's Greetings

[Tony Gosling]

Link of the year 2000 http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk 

Lobster is a six-monthly magazine/journal devoted to parapolitics,
uncovering hidden forces that govern the way we live.
Typical articles include:  'The CIA, drugs and the media', Jane Affleck's
web survey, 'the Rockefeller UFO initiative'.  It is independently
published by the editor and needs all the support it can get. 

The annual cost is between six and nine pounds stirling depending on where
you live.  Postal address and email at the bottom of the article. 

http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk 

now.. back to the land... 


Rights of Common 

Common Land is Land subject to Rights of Common - ie rights enjoyed by one
or more persons to take or use part of a piece of land or the produce of a
piece of land which is 'owned' by somebody else. 

Ancient rights of common were usually of five kinds, although there were
others: 

- of pasture: the right to graze livestock; the animals permitted, whether
sheep, horses, cattle, etc.,were specified in each case.
- of estovers: the right to cut and take wood (but not timber), reeds
heather bracken, etc.
- of turbary: the right to dig turf or peat for fuel.
- in the soil: the right to take sand, gravel, stone, coal, minerals, etc.
- of piscary: the right to take fish from ponds, streams etc. 



A brief chronology 

1066 --Norman Invasion, imposition of Norman Yoke
1086 --Domesday Book
1470-1900 --Enclosure
1536-1540 --Dissolution of the Monasteries
1549 --Kett's Rebellion
1642-1649 --English Civil War
1649 --The Diggers
1870-1903 --Irish Land Acts
1879-1881 --Irish Land League
1800-1882 --Highland Clearances
1882 --Crofters' War
1995- --The Land Is Ours, a landrights movement for Britain 

--
Tony Gosling <tony at gaia.org>
5 Warden Road
Bedminster
Bristol
England
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England

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"...not only this Common, or Heath should be taken in and Manured by the 
People, but all the Commons and waste Ground in England, and in the whole
World, 
shall be taken in by the People in righteousness, not owning any Property;
but 
taking the Earth to be a Common Treasury, as it was first made for all."

The Diggers' Manifesto - The True Levellers’ Standard Advanced, 1649
Gerrard Winstanley   http://www.bilderberg.org/land/diggers.htm