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Potatoes, 4/ 



Candles, 7 d. 



Soap, 7 d. 



Labourer's houfe rent, 30/. to 50/. 



#— ■— firing, 30^. 



At Broom/grove I firil: remarked the 

 abominable cuftom of dripping up the tim- 

 ber trees, to make them look like May- 

 poles, to the utter deftru6lion of the tim- 

 ber, and diftorting the face of the whole 

 country. 



Four miles on this fide of Worcejier land 

 letts from 1 5 s. to 40 s. an acre ; farms 

 from 20/. to 200/. a year. 



Worcejier is a very well built, and hand- 

 fbme city : the great ftreet is remarkably 

 fine. It is fuppofed to contain about twen- 

 ty-five thoufand fouls ; but this I take to 

 be an exaggeration. There are feveral 

 manufacflures carried on here, of which 

 the Glovers is the mofl confiderable* em- 

 ploying feveral thoufands of hands. 



Men earn from 7^. to (^s. per week. 



Women \s. to ^s. 



Children \.s.6d. to 3/. 6d. 



Burying crapes are alfo made here ; the 

 men in which branch earn from ^s. to qs, 

 a week. 



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