33'^ THE BEE, OR March 2, 



*Mg from dcor to door moft eft<eftually, by the aflurance ot 

 their inevitably lofmg all parilli relief if they perfift in the 

 pr.idice. As t'.e church felfion * is extremely attentive to 

 give them relief, according to their neceluties, to provide 

 medical afliftance for tliem when fick, to pay the fchool- 

 mafter for teaching their children reading, writing, and 

 the common rules of arithmetic, their own intereft induces 

 them to comply with the dellre of the feffioii, not to beg. 

 iJtggars, however, occanonally infell the parifh, but they 

 do not belong to nor refide in it. 



/V/. ? -/ Grain and Provijhns — The f vice of wheat, bar- 

 Icy, and oats are generally regulated by the Liverpool and 

 Gree' '■:.-: !.i'iris.et^ being juif as much below the prices at 

 ihcfe places, as .will pay freight, and afford a very moderate 

 profit ^'> the corn merchants, who export the grain to one 

 or other of thefe places. For many years paft, the price of 

 gr,iin has been in general the fame as in the Loadon market, 

 which is always a little below that of Liverpool. Grain is 

 in ^■^eneral cheaper here about Candlemas, the markets being 

 then overftockcd by tlie farmers anxiety to make up "their 

 half-year's rent, which is payable at that term. Communibus 

 antiii, wheat is 5 s. barley 2 s. 2d. and oats i s. 10 d. the 

 Winchefter buftiel. The prefeut average price of beef, veal, 

 mutton, liiraj, and pork through the year is 3 d. the pound 

 of 16 ounces, for thofe of the beft (jualities. At particular 

 times of the year they are all much cheaper ; and though 

 at 'ome periods they amount to 5 d- a pound, thefe dear 

 times do not laft long. The price of a roafting pig is 4 s. j 

 of a goofe 2 s. j of a turkey 2 s. 6d. j of a duck 10 d. ; of a 

 hen is; of a chicken 3 d. ; of rabbits, though there are few 

 of them, I s. the pair without the Ikins ; butter is 9 d. the 

 pound of 24 ounces j cheefe varies according to its richnefs 

 and age. 



frice of Labour The wages of men labourers are i s. a 



day, from the firit of March to the 6rfl; of November, and 

 10 d. the-rellof the year, except that in time of harveft 

 they are 13 d.j.and of mowing, 18 d. The v/ages of women 

 are, for working at peats, 8 d. ; at turnip weeding, hay 

 making, and other farm wrork in fummer, 7 d. j {hearing in 



* The ihttTchpJi'tor. is the fame as the fff<r^ in the Englifli pari&es. 



