Chap. 5.] 



TOPOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURE. 



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* The Returns are hardly accurate, the returns not having been fuUy made. 



Leland, writing temp Hen. VIII., says : " The Grouud between 

 Mori and Preston enclosed for pasture and corn, but were the vasts 

 Mores and Mosses be, wherby as in Hegges Eowes by side Grovettes 

 there is reasonable woodde for Buildding, and sum for Fier, yet al the 

 people ther for the most part burne Turfes. Likewise is the soil 

 betwixt Preston and Garstan, but alway the most part of the Inclosiu-es 

 be for Pasturages. Whete is not veri communelj- sowid in thes Partes 

 aforesaid." 



The following extract is interesting : 

 Lancashure, chiefly in these parts, is most remarkable for breeding cattle of a size 

 more than ordinarily large, particularly about Barnsley and Maudsley, from which 

 places I have known cattle sold at extraordinary rates, and heifers sometimes amounting 

 to fifteen or twenty pounds. The ground they feed upon is usually upon an ascent, and 

 the grass shorter that in lower gi'ounds. The usual method is to buy calves in those 

 parts when they are about one year old, then, by removing to a more fruitful pasture, 

 they arrive to a larger pitch than usual.— "Leigh's Natural History," pub. in 1700. 



In Walkden's days (1720-60), as he shows, the price of agricultural 



produce was as follows : 



8. d. s. d. 



Potatoes per load 1 8 to 3 6 



Butter per lb. 3^ „ 4 



Beef per lb. If „ 2 



Mutton per quarter 0,, 111 



Yule Loaf ? „ 3 



Cheese per lb. „ 2i 



Apples per bushel 0,, 2 



Cows each 100 „ 120 



Barley per peck 0,, 3 8 



Wool perlb. 3 „ 4 



Eggs per doz. „ 3 



On the other hand, coal was 5s. a cwt., of six scores to the cwt . 

 Wages were low. A thatch er got lOd. a day, finding his own victuals. 



