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NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Mr. George Culley. 



I AM convinced, that labour never advanced in any particular manner in this 

 country in my time (who have now been a farmer more than fifty years), until the 

 year 1795, which was the year when the first remarkable advance took place in 

 grain. Indeed the rise in wages did not take place until the year after, viz. 1796 ; 

 because every farmer of consequence in the year 1795, in this district, let his la- 

 bourers have their corn at such reduced prices as they could afford to give. As a 

 proof of the above, we find by our books that for a number of years prior to 1795* 

 we paid no more than \s. per day per annum for our labourers ; and we generally 

 agreed by the year with them. And if we hired any extra hands during the winter, 

 we gave them until Candlemas no more than td. or ^d. per day, then lod. until 

 1 2th of May, and i s. the rest of the year ; except in harvest or mowing time, we 

 gave them i s. and victuals, or i s. 6d. without meat. Immediately after the year 

 1795 labourers wages advanced, and kept gradually advancing, although grain got 

 down to reasonable prices, until i8oi, when the second great advance on grain took 

 place J since which time wages have doubled, or nearly so, to what they were prior 

 to the year 1795 ! A woman shearer in 1794 was no more than is. per day ; in 1803 

 they had 25. and more in some places. A man in the harvest 1794 was is. 6d. 

 without victuals, and u. with victuals; but the last year and the year before, viz. 

 1802 and 1803, 2s. and victuals. Much the same in masons, carpenters, &c. &c. 

 From 1794 to this time their wages have doubled, or as nearly so as can be. 



NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 



Mr. Christopher Morley. 



It appears very obvious that the expense of a corn farm is one-third more in the 

 year 1804 than in the year 1790. My opinion is, that the farmer at this time labours 

 under almost insurmountable difficulties, which requires the closest attention of the 

 legislature. There has been petitions sent to parliament respecting the high duty 

 upon malt; this complaint requires serious attention. It appears that the consumption 

 of malt by the extra duty is not much decreased : the present process of making 



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