1782. NORFOLK. 105 



Thus, fuppofing farms to be raifed thirty 58, 



per cent, within the laft fifteen or twenty years ; RISE OF 

 and fuppofing that, among middling farmers, 

 the rife in the poor's rates, and the extra ex- 

 pence of houfe-keeping, is adequate to the ad- 

 vance of produce; the farmer whonowjuft 

 makes ends meet on a farm of one hundred and 

 thirty pounds a year, had formerly a furplus 

 of thirty pounds left in his pocket to buy flock, 

 &c. at the bcfl market *. 



This, even the fecond year of his leafe, he 

 found of great advantage ; but the third year, 

 the thirty became fixty; the fourth, ninety, or 

 perhaps one hundred pounds ; for the intereft, 

 or a proper management of the money, had in- 

 creafcd his flock ; fo that by intereft upon in- 

 tereft, or by other advantages made of the mo- 

 ney, a careful, induflrious, fortunate man 

 found himfelf, at the end of his twenty-one 

 years leafe, to be worth eight hundred or one 

 thoufand pounds ; and confequently got, very 

 defervedly, the name of being a rich farmer. 



* A ftrikiag inftance of the Iof3 arifing from a want of 

 loofc money to buy flock when the markets are low, 

 occurs this year : at Kipping and Kenninghall fheep-fhowi 

 (a few months ago) the lame lambs might have been 

 bought for five (hillings and fixpence, which are note 

 worth half-a.guinea a head. 



But 



