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Tythes generally compounded 2s. 2d. an 

 acre for all under crops. The price of provi- 

 fions has rifen in general one-third in 20 years. 

 And a cow which 40 years ago, was bought 

 for 25s. is now 5I. 5s. and as good a horfe, 25 

 years ago, for 4 to 5I. as now fold for iol to 

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There are fome cotters who have not farms, 

 only a potatoe garden, a patch of flax, grafs 

 for a cow, and a little ftraw for the winter, for 

 all which they pay 2I. 2s. a year. Rife in the 

 price of labour from 4d. and board to 5d. and 

 6|d. and ditto in 20 years. The fuel gene- 

 rally coals, which are 13s. to 1 8s. a ton, and 

 they fend their children to pick up dung to 

 burn j yet this is the country that \ have heard 

 commended for hufbandry. Building a mud 

 farm-houfe 81. Ditto ftone and flate 30I. 



The linen manufacture is carried on very 

 generally through the barony. In Downpa- 

 trick there are 500 webs fold every week, at 

 is. id. a yard, and 26s. each, being from 800 

 to 1400, in general 1200 linen j which 1200 

 web will take 38 hanks of 4 hank yarn, and 

 a woman will on an average fpin the 38 hanks 

 in as many days, being paid 4d. a hank • a wea- 

 ver will make it in a fortnight, and has 10s. 

 for it. 



Upon the marling coming in, there was a 

 corn-coafting trade opened from Strangford, 

 and it flourifhed confiderably, but fell off pret- 



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