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Wheat from 3 /. to 5 /, 

 Barley, 3 s. 

 Oats, 2 s. 

 Hay, IS. 6 d. 

 Poor rates is. 6 d. m the pound. Idle- 

 nefs the chief employment of the women 

 and children : All drink tea, and fly to the 

 parillies for relief, at the very time that 

 even a woman for wafhing is not to be 

 had. hy many accounts I received of 

 the poor in this neighbourhood, I appre- 

 hend the rates are burthened for the 

 ipreading lazinefs, drunkennefs, tea-drink- 

 ing, and debauchery : — The general effedt 

 of them, indeed, all over the kingdom. 



Leafes are various, both for terms from 

 feven to twenty-one years, and for two and 

 three lives. 



The general ceconomy will be (ttn. from 

 the following particulars of farms* 

 400 acres in all 

 150 arable 

 250 grafs 

 £, 300 rent 

 12 horf&s 

 36 cows 

 12 fatting beails 

 30 young cattle 



50 Ihecp 



