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Your constant residence here has been talked of and cavelled at by some of the neighboring families, who have not recovered from the surprise they felt on hearing that Sir Jasper had died intestate and left his orphan niece unprovided for.
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The lands drained were said to be "_cavelled and allotted_" to so and so, and the pieces of land were called "_cavells_."
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_Kavel_ is used for sors, "sors in divisione bonorum:" and among other definitions of the verb _Kavelen_, "sorte dividere terram," which corresponds exactly with his _cavelled and allotted_.] *****
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