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I own charges, - 40 

 Houfe - keeping, befides what 



comes from the farm, - 100 



Furniture, - - 200 



Five men, - - - 40 



Four boys, - - - 12 



Four labourers, ----- 80 



Three maids, - - 10 

 Seed, 



Seventy acres of wheat, - 100 



Seventy acres of barley, - 45 



Thirty-five acres of beans, - 28 



Thirty-five acres of oats, - 17 



Twenty acres of clover, - 8 



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Land fells at twenty-eight and thirty years 

 puichaie. 



Poor rates very high, higher than the 

 land tax, to 4 s. in the pound ; in the vil- 

 lages no where lower than is. 



The employment of the poor women and 

 children is chierly with the gardeners, of 

 whom (as at Sandy, in Bedford/hire) there 

 are great numbers : Between three and four 

 hundred acres of land in this neighbourhood 

 are fo employed, that let for 50 s. and 3 /. 

 an acre: They carry their products around 

 the country, to Birmingham, Worcefier, 

 ^ewkjbury, Gloucefter, Warwick, Coventry, 

 Stow, &c. and feeds to Stafford, Litchfield, 



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