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paper money, and, of course, the raising of rents upon the tenants 
have each contributed to this rise in almost all kinds of pro- 
visions.” 
The rise in the wages is as remarkable as the rise in the price 
of provisions. Labourers’ wages were 1s per day ; carpenters and 
masons, Ils 8d to 2s; tailor, his victuals and 6d; labourer in 
harvest, without food, 1s and 1s 1d; ploughmen’s wages, 7 to 8 
guineas ; dairymaids, £3 to £4 per annum; maid servants in 
towns, £2 10s to £4 ; men servants, £7 to £9. 
The schools receive warm praise. There were three estab- 
lished schools for English. The masters of these received £20 
amongst them, 2s 6d a quarter from each scholar, and a Candlemas 
offering. There was one established Grammar School, the master 
of which had £47 a year. He got no fees from the children of 
burgesses, but 8s a quarter from others. The Candlemas offering 
amounted to about 10s 6d a head. The average number of 
scholars was 100. There was an established school for arithmetic, 
book-keeping, and mathematics. The master had £20 a year, 5s 
a quarter from the children of burgesses, and 7s 6d from others, 
and no Candlemas offering. The number of scholars was about 
sixty. There was also an established school for writing, where 
the master had a salary of £22, and the same fees as the master of 
the arithmetic school. The pupils were said to number about 
seventy. Besides these there were a free unendowed school for 
reading and writing, and two or three boarding schools for young 
ladies. It is also recorded that French, drawing, and dancing are 
very well taught. Unfortunately the details given do not warrant 
any comparison with the amount of the school accommodation or 
the number of children attending school at the present day. If 
we might hazard a conjecture, they were much behind what we 
now have, but in some respects considerably more adequate than 
the schools were immediately prior to the passing of the late 
Education Act. 
The number of poor in 1790 occasionally receiving alms was 
at least 150. The Poor-house (Moorheads’ Hospital) supported 45 
to 50 persons. The whoie sum expended on the poor, including 
mortification revenue of the hospital, amounted to £400. The 
poor rate last year was £2930. When we add to this the revenue 
of Moorheads’ Hospital, of the Carruthers’ Cottages, of the 
Menzies and Crocket Funds, and of other Trusts, we have a total 
of at least £3999. It would thus appear that the people a hundred 
