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Should you require me to give an account of pur- 

 chafes that have doubled and trebled themfelves in 

 a few years, by way of proof I could fend you a 

 long lift of very many; but, as this might give of- 

 fence, I {hall only inform you that I purchafed Edy- 

 mead-Farm in the parifli of Burnham, at eleven hun- 

 dred pounds, and mortgaged it for one thoufand 

 pounds; and although the mortgagee's agent valued 

 it in only fifty pounds per annum, yet as I was in 

 the habit of improving it, he was content to let his 

 money remain upon it more than twenty years be- 

 fore I paid him off. I now let it at one hundred 

 and forty pounds per annum, and two years fince 

 refufed three thoufand guineas for it, having then 

 demanded three thoufand five hundred pounds; but 

 will not at prefent fell it for lefs than four thoufand 

 pounds 1 



It is not yet three years fince I purchafed at pub- 

 lick auction, forty-five acres (computed meafure) of 

 pafture land, for three lives, at 810I.; I now let it 

 at 140I. per annum! The farm to which this pafture 

 belonged fold at 1380I. and is now let at 200I. per 

 annum. Thefe inftances are, as well as more, to 

 prove the great increafe of the rent of landed pro- 

 perty, and the great advantages the land-owners de- 

 rive to themfelves from their refpeftive purchafes. 



You know the annual rent of Somerfetfliirc at 

 the Revolution, was eftiraated at near three hundred 



and 



