1780 



INCOME FKOM PEOPEETY 45 



Now Gilbert White never held any benefice other 

 than his little living of Moreton Pinkney, the value 

 of which, as reckoned in the King's Books, would be 

 insignificant indeed. What, then, was the income from 

 his total inherited property after his aunt's death ? 



Though he made fairly coniplete entries of his 

 expenditure in his account-books, he does not appear 

 to have kept any regular account of his incomings. 

 Fortunately, however, the following entries occur 

 of the rent and outgoings of his landed property, all 

 of which was certainly inherited by him : — 



YEARLY RENT AND OUTGOINGS IN 1780 OF FARMS 

 BELONGING TO GILBERT WHITE. 



From the net rent of Hurst farm, bequeathed by 

 Mrs. Snooke, however, is to be deducted the interest 



