36 RENT. 



Mr. Galway, of TofFts, irrigation. 



Mr. Bevan,' of Riddles worth, considerable efforts in 

 irrigation; marling; and various improvements; South 

 Down sheep, &c. 



SECT. II. RENT. 



The circumstance which makes the rent of a county 

 an objedl of any interest in an Agricultural Report, is its 

 being a confirmation of tlie descriptions which are given 

 of soils ; the terms used in defining land, rich, poor, mixed, 

 strong, light, &c. must in many cases be vague; but 

 when sand is noted at 2S. 6d. an acre, or rich or strong at 

 203. to 30S. the reader has more explicit Information. 

 When a man is told that sand produces six or seven quar- 

 ters an acre of beans, the fa£l does not convey any know- 

 ledge ; but if it be added, that the rent is 30s. an acre, it 

 becomes easy to guess what the soil is. The minutes, 

 however, of rent, are not numerous : on many occa- 

 sions it is an inquiry prudently shunned, and on some, 

 it is not an ohjc6l of consequence. 



Hufidred ofShrcpham. — Two-thirds of Shropham hun- 

 dred, containing 20 parishes, are sand, at 5s. an acre. 

 The other thiid better land, at 12s. ; average of the 

 whole, 7s. 4d. 



Around Attleborough, 20s. to 35s. Besthorpe, 23s. 



Shropham, 20s. but high let. 



Way land. — About Watton, small enclosures, up to 40Si 

 and 50s. an acre : all the country round, that is not light, 

 20s. 



GUcross. — Snare-hill, June 20, 1734. Valuation of 

 stock : 15 neat beasts, 3 cart mares, 8 acres of grass, and 

 all the other r^rass, and all the corn of the farm, loil. 4s. 



(Signed) JOHN WARD. 



