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qucnt difference of 4s. per acre, againd the annual rent or 

 value of the fuperior land. That number of acres of 



forefl: land, producing nothing but old pollard, oak, and horn- 

 beam at this time, yielding on a very fair ftatetTient 5s. 8d|. 

 per acre, but were it enclofed for cultivation it might be readily 

 difpofed of at 20s. an improvement may therefore be made 

 in the annual value of that body of land, be its extent what 

 it may, of 14s. 3|d. per acre. That there are 2203 of 

 cominons, which by enclofure, may be improved i8s. 2d. 

 per acre. That the average produce of the crops of wheat 

 are twenty-eight bufliels, of barley thirty-fix buftiels, of 

 oats forty bufhels, and of beans forty bufhels per acre. 

 That the prefent commutation for the great and fmall tythes 

 is 3s. 4fd. and that the fame has increafed ii|d. per acre 

 within twenty years : and laftly, thatjhe poor's rates, upon 

 the prefent rack rents, are 3s. gd. and that they have increafed 

 IS. 6d. in the pound within the laft ten years. 



The average value of labour, fervants wages, and price of 

 provilions, is found through this diftridl, to be as follows: 



Beef 4|d. per lb. — mutton 5id. per lb. — veal 5id. per \b. 

 , — frelh pork 6d. per lb. — pickled pork 8|d. per lb.— butter 

 I id. and cheefe 6d. per lb. — houlliold flour 2s. id. per peck, 

 and potatoes is. 8d. per buftiel. Stated daily labour ros. 

 per week in fummer, in winter is. 6d. per day. Thrafliing 

 wheat 2s. iid. — barley 2s. — oats is. 5d. — peas 2s. 4d. and 

 beans is. 4d. per quarter. For mown wheat '3s. 6d. per 

 quarter, and is. per load for trufhng the draw. When wheat 

 is thrafhed by the trufs, the ufual price is 2d. when beans, 

 oats, or barley i^d. per trufs. Servants wages from men of 

 ten guineas to boys of 4I. with board and lodging. Women 

 fervants from four guineas to 2I. per annum, board* wafhing 

 and lodging included. 



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