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In the parifli of Belford arc 

 10,600 acres in all 

 3,300 of ditto moors 

 400 wood 

 200 bogs 

 20 farms, and 600 acres in little 



parcels 

 180 labourers 



20 men fervants 

 200 horfes (by 20 farmers) 

 150 oxen 

 4000 (heep 



40 fatting beads 

 6d. in the pound rates 

 X- 3'300 rent. 



The town of Belford, which is a pretty, 

 well fituated place, belongs entirely td 

 Abraham Dkkfon, Efq; That Gentleman's 

 father procured a market and two fairs to 

 be eftablifhed at it ; but the fpirited con- 

 du(fk of the prefent owner is what has 

 brought it to the condition, fo flourifli- 

 ing to what it formerly was ; thirteen years 

 ago it did not contain above 100 fouls, but 

 they now amount to above fix times that 

 number : And this increafe has been owing 

 to the excellent means of introducing an 



induflry 



