ENCLOSING. 89 



OLD BUCKENHAM. — xlCT I/QO- 



Quantity. — Near 900 acres of poor common, some wet, 

 tlte rest sandy and gravel ; a little good, that the a^St ope- 

 rated upon. No open field arable. 



Re>2t. — Quality, price 5s. to 255. Now 15s. and much 

 raised since enclosing. All now, 15s. 



Corn. — All, except loo acres, converted to arable- 



S/ieep. — Vervfew kept before ; certainly increased. 



Cozvs, tec. — Lessened, periiaps two-thirds ; but as niuch 

 butter as before; other kinds of cattle increased. 



Improvements. — The soil not adapted to the common 

 ones. 



Tit/ie. — Free before. 



Rates. — About 2s. except in a year of scarcity. 



Expenses. — Roads included, above 1500I. 



Poor. — Had ICO acres of fen allotted for fuel ; the her- 

 bage lets for 12I. a year; had, as at Carleton, a double 

 portion, and set out near rheir houses, nobody suffered or 

 complained ; very few under 5I. a year kept cows ; they 

 have not been injured in any degree whatever : for fuel, arc 

 better off than before; as no draining was done to the ieuy 

 it is not under any regulations. 



BURNHAM NORTON. 



This parish was instanced to me, as a proof that the no- 

 minal number of cows kept before enclosing, was a mere 

 fallacy. There is a salt-marsh common, of 15 acres, 

 which, it" embanked, would not let at 15s, There are 24 

 cows kept on it by the common-right cottagers ; they have 

 no other land ; no hay ; no turnips ; no means of winter 

 support; no enclosures belonging to them. It is not 

 known that they do, or can buy hay or turnips. How the 

 cows arc supported is an enigma ; but, as in summer, there 



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