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14 j. an acre, and the grafs 20 s. Farms, 

 from 30/. to 100/. a year. Their courfe 

 of crops, 



1. Fallow 



2. Wheat or barley 



3. Beans, peafe or oats. 



They plough three times for wheat, fow 

 two bufhels, and reap about 24 or three 

 quarters. For barley they give the fame 

 tillage, fow four bumels, and reckon three 

 quarters the mean produce. For oats they 

 ftir but once, fow four bufhela, and gain, 

 at an average, two quarters and a half. 

 They fow but few peafe, but when they 



Virgin and child. Eyes very bad. 



The faloon is 40 by 27 •, hung with crimfon 

 velvet ; the pillars in two corners, I fuppofe, 

 were neceflary to the building, but they are 

 handfome ones ; the flabs are of various 

 marbles in Mofaic ; over the chimney, a pic- 

 ture of Hetfor and Andromache, the colours, 

 attitudes and exprefiion of which are by no 



means pleafing. The ftate bed-chamber, 



27 by 21, is hung with cut velvet, the pier 

 glafs and flab glailes from Venice ; the border 

 of the lirit is pretty. In the clofet is a Mag- 

 dalen ; the exprefiion of pain in her counte- 

 nance, not amii's •, the thought feems borrow- 

 ed from Lord Pembroke's Venus. Through 



the ftaircafe is a fmall room hung with very 

 fine drawings after Raphael and Julio Romano. 



The dining room is 30 by 27. 



The library 24 fquarti the book-cafes pretty. 



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