( 200 ) 



Out deep with a c^ommon plough and three horfes; iind one fpit only dug with the narrow 

 or tongue fpade, and then filled up with haulm or flrawonly, wood being a very fcarce 

 and expenfive article in an open field country : but thefe are very liable to be trod in by the 

 horfes in ploughing, and confequently frequently blown; this done at is. per rod, will laft 

 in found land fifteen or fixteen years, Soundefl: mode to plough and dig two fpits, and fill 

 with wood, ftraw, or haulm; this done at 2d. per rod ; depth from furface about twenty 

 inches, and will laft from twenty to twenty-five years in found land. 



22, Nothing of the kind pracbifed. 



23. Woods well attended to; quantity fmall ; cut at twelve years growth, worth at the flub 

 , about 81. per acre; confift of afh, fallow, hornbeam, hazel, and thorn. 



25. Generally getting into good order.: 



26. Moftly well fituared with regard to the enclofures. Common field lands very inconveniently 



difpofed, frequently in very fmall pieces and at great diftances. Houfes chiefly built of lath 



and plaifter. Great number of outbuildings, every farmer anxtmjly eager to get all his com 

 hoiifcd, 



27. Generally for the term of twenty-one years, though leafes are by no means fo frequent as 

 formerly, and daily becoming lefs fo. 



28. No commerce or manufadures. 



30. One at Chelmsford. 



31. Active farmers, much fpirit for improvement; that is, land ditching, manuring, and fal- 

 lowing well. 



33. Common field lands very great ohftacks to improvement , by reafon of their uniform confined 

 mode of hufljandry, be the condition or quality of the feveral lands^what they will. Thefe 

 pernicious eflfeds too likewife, operate greatly on the enclofures, -unavoidably fubjeding 

 them in a great degree to the fame fyflem. In the commons, no gralTes or green crops as 

 turnips or tares can be fown, and confequently no flock kept (at leaft in very few inllances, 

 and there in fmall degrees) except by the occupiers of the manor farms, they claiming and 

 exercifing every where over them, to the exclufion of all others, their rights of fheep-walk, 

 over-running every thing, doing thereby much injury to their neighbours, (particularly 

 with their dry flocks, which are driven about by a boy all fummer long, to fliift as they 

 can) and little proportionate good to themfelves; the fmall occupiers being thereby pre- 

 vented varying their mode of cropping, and the latter, by the large provifion of turnips, 

 &.C. required in winter and fpring, in this country, much injuring themfelves in their fub- 

 fequcnt crops of barley. The commons then aftbruing little or no fuftenance. The fmall- 

 ncfs too of the pieces, confifting frequently of two, three, four, five roods, and fo on, 

 preventing in many inftances, attempts at draining; and their aukward diftance and dilpo- 

 lition, coiifiderably increafing the expence of manure, attended with much lofs of time, 

 are very confiderabie obftacles to improvements. 



"11, The tvthes of Newport and Wendcn in lay hands are taken in kind. The other pariflies 

 compounded for on an average at about 3s. per acre. Rife within thefe twenty years does 

 not appear to have much exceeded 6d. per acre. 



Y- Poors rates fiom 2s. 6 1. to 3^-. 6 J. in the pound on the rack rents. Population is certainly 

 kicreafed in all the pariflies. 



