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wanderingfey
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own bulletin...along with these instructions.
"Throughout the eighteenth century freeman's rights were jealously maintained, especially through means of apprenticeship; and into the nineteenth century rights in the Lammas Lands were signaled annually (as they were in other towns) by the Lammas riding, when the corporation and freemen rode the boundaries of the fields, trampled any corn grown in them (unless propitiated by supplies of ale and food) and torn down gates and obstructions."
-Custom Law and Common Right in Customs in Common by E.P. Thompson
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own bulletin...along with these instructions.
"Throughout the eighteenth century freeman's rights were jealously maintained, especially through means of apprenticeship; and into the nineteenth century rights in the Lammas Lands were signaled annually (as they were in other towns) by the Lammas riding, when the corporation and freemen rode the boundaries of the fields, trampled any corn grown in them (unless propitiated by supplies of ale and food) and torn down gates and obstructions."
-Custom Law and Common Right in Customs in Common by E.P. Thompson