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PROVISIONS, 6-c 



Cheefe, ad. per/£. Mutton, - £d. 

 Butter, - 7 Candles, - 6 



Beef, - 32. Soap, - 6 



Labourers houfe rent, 20 s. 



Their firing, 30 s. 



IMPLEMENTS. 



A waggon, 1 2 /. to 1 5 /. (very narrow bodies) 

 A cart, 8 /. A plough, 1 /. 



LABOUR. 



In harveft, 1 s. 3 d. a day, and board. 



In winter, Sd. 



Reaping, 45. 6 d. and 5 s. 



Mowing grafs, is. 6 d. 



Threfhing, all by the day. 



A vile cuftom I remarked in fome of 

 the new inclofures here, was the lowing 

 common clover in laying down land for 

 five, fix, or feven years ; that grafs lafts in 

 their land but two years, fo that you fee 

 fome fields in which it is wearing out, in 

 others it is quite gone and nothing but 

 couch grafs and rubbifh fucceeding. The 

 white thorn plants in the new hedges 

 were all full of weeds, and of a Hinted 

 growth. 



At Hatton, and the neighbourhood, I 

 found feveral variations, which require 

 frefh minutes ; their foil is chiefly gravel, 

 lets from 5 s. to 20 j. an acre ; their courfc 



1. Fallow 



