412 DRUMMOLAND, 



The poor live upon potatoes ten months of the 

 y p ar ; but if a mild winter, and a good crop, 

 all the year on them. They keep cows very 

 generally, but not fo many as in the lift of 

 Sir Lucius's tenants. Labour is ufually paid 

 for with land. Working- days of roman ca^ 

 tholics may be reckoned 250 in a year, which 

 are paid for with as much laud as amounts to 

 about fix pounds, and the good and bad maf- 

 ter is diftinguifhed by this land being reckon" 

 ed at an high or a low rent. The ftate of the 

 poor, on comparifon with what they were 

 twenty years ago, is that they are much in- 

 creafed in numbers, and better clad then they 

 were, and more regularly fed, in being freed 

 from thofe fcarcities which were felt before the 

 laws for the increafe of tillage. Relative to 

 religion, there was a return to the committee 

 of religion, in thehoufe of Commons, in 1765, 

 when the return of Clare was as follows, in 

 five divifions : 



Lucerne, 



