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Their firing, 5 J. (whins chiefly.) 



Poor rates, 6 d. in the pound rack rents. 



Surveyors rate, 3 d. in ditto fometimes. 



Tythes generally gathered. 



Lands upon a medium fells at 35 years 



purchafe. 



Thefe prices of labour are moft of them 

 extremely high ; and the occafion is fup- 

 pofed by all J converfed with on the fub- 

 ject to be owing to the public works which 

 have been for fome time, and . yet continue 

 to be carried on in the neighbourhood, fuch 

 as draining, inclofing and making turn- 

 pikes : Such works mult and will have 

 hands by giving fomething above the com- 

 mon amount of wages, which obliges the 

 farmers alfo to raife their pay until fome- 

 what of a competition enfues, infomuch 

 that very lately (fmce harveft begun) the 

 commimoners of a neighbouring drainage 

 cried in Beverley ftreets, 2 s. 6d. a day for 

 common fpadefmen. Thcfe high wages, 

 the gentlemen and farmers all afTert, to be 

 of no fervice to the poor families, but to 

 affect the price of labour out of propor- 

 tion to the number of hands taken from 

 husbandry ; becaufe the men that earn 3 .r. 

 or 4J-. a day, fcarce ever work above three 

 days in a week, but drink out the reft ; 

 and thus no great number being publickly 

 employed makes the labourers in winter fo 



faucy, 



