SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY 



'7» Consisting of the Liberty of Gillingham and parts of the hundreds of Cranborne and Sixpenny- Handley. 



'8 Tollard Royal A ncimt Piirish.— The remainder is in Wilts (Chalk Hundred). The population of the part in 

 Dorset is estimated for 1801. 



18a Consisting of Sherborne and Yetminster Hundreds, and Halstock and Ryme Intrinseca Liberties. 



" Melbury Osmond. — The increase in population in 1871 is attributed to the withdrawal of a regulation made by 

 the late landlord, prohibiting the farmers from employing labourers with large families. 



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