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which the land, or occupier thereof, (lands charged 

 according to the cuftom of the country, fo that 

 the tenant has no payment whatever to make but 

 rent only. 



If the above calculation be admitted as founded 

 on fadt, the proportion of money will be as one to 

 twelve from the Reftoration to the prefent time. 

 I know the clergy in their comments upon the va- 

 luation of the King*s liber valorum add a cypher 

 upon the right hand, which only makes the pro- 

 portion to be as one to tenj but this is merely 

 arbitrary, without calculation. In anfwer to which 

 I do not recolledl to have feen any grant whatever 

 in Queen Elizabeth's reign, where the premifes 

 conveyed are not worth at prefent as many thou- 

 fands as tjie confideration money was hundreds. 

 Indeed 'Pill' s- Mouth Farnty where I drew my firft 

 breath, worth at prefent icol. per annum, coft my 

 grandfather's father in the reign of Charles II. only 

 200I. in fee; which farm was purchafed of the 

 lord of the manor* in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 

 O 3 for 



• The Popham family were lords of Burnham in the laft century, 

 id we have a tradition amongft us, that an anceftor of this family, 

 lien a young univerfity blood, in company with two jovial compa- 

 >ns, made too free with a gentleman's purfc upon the road. Soon 

 ter Popham repented, imdhis companions thought nothing Icfs than 

 ^ difcovcry would follow, which in order to prevent they led him into 



a wood I 



