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liarveft, 13 d. Both men and women furnifli tlieir O'svn pro- 

 vifions out of their wages. The day wages of a carpenter 

 and a raafon, are i s. 8 d. j of a bricklayer and flater, 2 s.; 

 * of a taylor, i s. without, or 6 d. with meat. Work, ho"w-- 

 ever, is generally done by the piece. The average of farm 

 fervants, when they eat in the houfe, is 7 1. for men, and 

 3 1. for women ; but the farm fervants are generally paid by 

 what is called a benefit, before delcribed 5 and if the man's 

 wife and children are employed by the farmer, their work 

 is feparately paid for. The wages of domeflic fervants are 

 nearly the fame with thofe of farm fervants. 



Kxpences of a Labourer'' s Family The expences of 3 com- 

 mon labourer, when married, and with fjur or fie child- 

 ren, is about 16 1. a year. The wages which he receives, 

 together with the induftry of Tiis wife, enable him to live 

 tolerably comfortable, and to give his children an educa- 

 tion proper for their ftation, provided he and his v.'ife are 

 fober, induilrious, and frugal : Thofe of them "who are em- 

 barraffed in their circumliances, owe their poverty either 

 to their own, or to their wife's bad condud. That the la- 

 bourers can maintain *heir families at this fmall expence. is 

 owing to the farmers, from whom they have cottages, allow- 

 ing them as much land for one year's rent fue, to riant 

 potatoes in, as they can manure fufficiently with allies, or 

 fuch dung as they can provide for themfelves ^ and thele 

 potatoes conftitute at leaft one half of their year's food. 



Divi/ton and Rent of Lands. — A great part ol the parlfli 

 is inclofed but a confiderable part Hill lies open. The far- 

 mers feem fufficiently convinced of the advantages of inclof- 

 ing, and would willingly allow their landlords imercft for 

 fuch fums of money as would be neceffary for making inclo- 

 fures. The farms are in general from 40 I. to 150I. a year, 

 but there are fome few from 40 1. down to as fmall as 8 1. 



• The wages of thefe four artifts were i<l. lefs before the year 1788 » 

 at that time an uncommon fpirit for building appearing in the country 

 increafed the demand for labour of that kind. This fpirit proceeded 

 from the general tafte for giiod houfes, which marks this period, aiui 

 from many monied men, who, Jiaving purchafed eftates in thu part of 

 the countr}', arc building elcga.nt manfion haufcs for themftive^ AcdL 

 good farm houfcs for their tenants. 



