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Additional Information. 



Mr. Thomas Pichford. 



Average Price of St. Alban's and Hemel Hempsted Markets, Herts : 



1790. 1803. 



Wheat, per load 

 Barley, per quarter 

 Oats, per quarter 

 Peas, per load 



HEREFORDSHIRE. 



Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 



Where the quantity of tillage has remained undiminished, and a new incumbent 

 has taken possession, the tithes, on an average, have probably increased from thirty 

 to 50 per cent, but the rapid decrease of tillage, owing to the price of labour and 

 timber, (which has increased fifty per cent, and upwards within the last seven years ;) 

 the effects of the tithes themselves, as a tax, almost exclusively on tillage, and 

 the labour and risk of tillage; the tithe of the wheat crop, taking its diminished 

 breadth, is probably greater than I have stated. In one instance which has come 

 within my own knowledge, the tithes have increased, within the last fourteen years, 

 £5^6. per cent. The land is in common fields; but exchanges are making, and 

 much will be converted to pasture. The sum at which the tithes in this case are 

 valued, is not acceded to by the farmer. 



KENT. 



y. R. Head, Esq. 



It is my most firm opinion, that if the prices of corn continue for a year longer at 

 the same rate they now are, it will be impossible, by any skill or industry, to make 

 the produce of the land reimburse the expenses of its cultivation. It is in this neigh- 

 bourhood a received axiom, that the finances of the farmer are at this moment as 

 low as in common years only arrives at the end of the corn harvest, and that half 

 iheir tradesmen's bills, at least, are unpaid ; so that unless some relief be granted 



