OF NORFOLK. 



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ham, Member for Norwich, confifls of about 1300 

 acres of land, and till the year 1771, remained time 

 out of mind in the following Mate : 400 acres of 

 inclofed ; 100 or wood land ; 400 of common field; 

 and 400 of common or heath. By authentic re- 

 giflers, at different periods, it appeared, that the 

 number of fouls had never been known to exceed 

 124, which was the number in 1745; in 1777, 

 they were only 121 ; at this time they amount to 

 174. This rapid increafe I attribute chiefly to the 

 recent improvements made in the pariih, by inclo- 

 Cng all the common field land, and by converting 

 moft of the common into arable land and plantations. 

 The pariih has no particular connection with any 

 other, and therefore its own increafe of labour and 

 produce muft be the principal caufe at leaft of this 

 flriking alteration. The pariih of Weyburn, which 

 remains uninclofed in this neighbourhood, belong- 

 ing to Lord Walpole, who poffeffes, in a very emi- 

 nent degree, the three great characleriftics of a 

 country gentleman, a good magiilrate, a good 

 neighbour, and a good landlord, is the moll like 

 what Felbrigg was before its inclofure, confifting of 

 about the fame quantity of common and common 

 fields ; but I do not find that the population there 

 has increafed of late, which is a corroborating proof 

 of inclofures being in favour of population. 



If then, inclofing be found fo beneficial, every 



obflrudlion to it ought to be removed. In the 



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