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12. Wheat in September; bailey, beans and peas in February j oats, March; begin to be fovra 

 and to be reaped and mown in Angufi:. 



13. Very old inclofure, fo much fo, as now to require enlargement. 



14. It is conjeftured, that blight and fmut are increafed by want of air. 



15. From fix to twenty acres, more nearer the former, furroiinded with trees. 



16. The population always confiderable in part, perhaps from this. 



17. None. 



i8. In Pattifwick a fine down common, under the manorial right of the Bifliop of London, of 

 about 1 CO acres. 



ig. Scandoudy abufed by the adjoining farmers laying dung, and breaking up the turf every 

 where to mix with it, and confequently a nice farm, or fine flieep pafture, to the prejudice 

 of the poor, who have in general right of herbage, grofsly plundered and deftroyed. 



20. A ^o<? J labourer gains at leaft 8s. per week, the year round, beer included, more if working 



as much is frequently done, when convenient on both fides, by the piece; this varies as to 

 the depth, breadth, or quantity. Land-ditching, a furrow ploughed, then two fpade 

 deep, one fpade with the fmall land ditch-fpade, cleanfed at this bottom with the fcoop, 

 filled with flraw and wood ; levelled at 3s. 6d. per fcore rods ; ditching four feet wide, 

 three feet deep, and hedging it is. 2d. per rod, beer included. 2s. 6d. per acre 

 mowing good grafs. Barley 2s. oats is. 6d. beans 5s. 6d. peas 5s. wheat 6s. haulming wheat 

 ftubble 28. 6d. hoeing by hand beans twice 9s. peas, if twice 7s. wheat once 5s. turnips 

 twice 7s. My conflant labourer at 8s. per week, exclufive of boufe and garden^ and fome 

 trifling benefit with a wife, who, when fpinning can be got, and at a toleiablc rat«, may 

 earn 4d. per day, an eldert girl 3d. a boy, occafionally under his father 4d. and three more, 

 too young for any earnings, coft; him in maintenance 10s. per week, at the ioweft, 



21. Draining, as mentioned above, here eflential and well uixierilood. 



22. Paring and burnirrg totally unknown. 



23. Numerous woods, though gradually lefllened, when well attended to, in griping, ditching, 

 and planting afhes, and the underwood thus running to hop poles, pay clear at twelve or 

 fourteen years growth, from 7s. to 10s. per acre per ann. and in fome places 14s. the timber 

 therefore, in them in general a prejudice: It is far from growing very large, forty 

 feet, a well grown old tree, top and bark included, the buyer falling, it fells at 2s. per foot. 



54. The beft mutton, pork, veal, lamb, 5d. per lb. beef 4|d. per lb. inferior in quality and 

 joints, fomewhat lefs ; butter ^d. per lb. cheefe jd. per lb. pickled pork 7d. per lb. not 

 any profpeft of thofe high prices lowering; good bread, the fineft fk)ur and pollard bi-aiv 

 taken out, fcarcely ever at id. per lb. the poor efteem this, though dear, heartieft, and is 

 cheapeft ; but the heartieft and cheapeft bread, and what, to enforce its ufe, fliould pro- 

 bably be alone aflized, is from wheat excclletitly ground, ?iudL7mthitig taken out j this might be 

 fold at id. per lb. 



35. The principal roads in each parifh very tolerable; might be hereabouts fo very good, as' 



nearly to fpare turnpikes, if the magiftrates would but enforce the laws for the ditches to be 



well fcowered, the hedges kept low, and all pollard trees in thefe, ac'joining each principal 



road, removed ; But in their attention to the Road Aft they are fi:rangely neglev:lful. 



26. IMaay 



