--- F R E N D Z of martian --- 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 Robin Ramsay, 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. 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5 Warden Road Bedminster Bristol England BS3 1BU England Telephone +44 (0)117 953 1256 Mobile Phone +44 (0)7961 460171 ECOVILLAGE NETWORK UK http://www.ecovillages.org/uk/network/ THE LAND IS OURS: http://www.oneworld.org/tlio/ I-CONTACT VIDEO NETWORK: http://www.videonetwork.org TONY'S RESEARCH: http://www.bilderberg.org CITIPAGES: http://www.citipages.co.uk "...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 -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> Big News - eGroups is becoming Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details: http://click.egroups.com/1/10801/1/_/_/_/976971043/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/