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crops as Potatoes, Cabbage, Rape, Mangolds, 

 Turnips, Clover, Sainfoin, and Grasses in arable 

 rotation, so that the present Agriculture is far 

 more remote from that of 1696, than the latter 

 from 1086, and for aught I can discover there was 

 little of food importation T. R. W. I. or T. R. W. 

 III. For 1086, take the population of England at 

 1,800,000 (Ellis' count X by more than 6), and 

 for 1696, 5^ millions (incl. Wales) from King's 

 estimate from the Hearth Tax (also reckoned at 

 7 millions ; the houses were 1,300,000 at the 

 Revolution, which shows King's cast to have 

 been low) ; the Lancaster Herald (King) allowed 

 10 million acres in 1696 in ordinary rotation, the 

 same amount in pasture and meadow, allotting 

 to heaths, moors, woods, and forests more than 

 3- their now extent, and less than 3" the present 

 amount of land in towns a reference to the 1897 

 Agricultural Returns shows n^- million acres 

 arable, and 1 3 millions in pasture and meadow in 

 England. King gives a total produce of 90,000,000 

 bushels, of which 17 millions for seed; he estimates 

 3,200,000 acres barley land, of which one-third 

 (say i million) fallow, so 'tis plain he is thinking 

 of a 3 course shift, which allows from 6,666,666 

 acres under crop, some 73 million bushels for use 

 for 5^ million folk; this amounts to 13 bush, 

 per head, and between 13 and 14 bush, per sown 

 acre yield, (of which about 3 bush, for seed), so 

 that deducting from the sown acres some 1,166,666 

 acres for seed, there would be about i acre per 

 head, in other words some 5^ millions (of the 

 10,000,000 arable) actually feeding the same 

 no. of folk as found. King's estimate of yield 

 is 13-14 bush. p. ac. (no items save barley at 

 1 5 bush.) all round ; in 1333-5 from 8 estates of 



