104 ENCLOSING. 



cocks-foot, ynrrovv, &cc. : tliis would be a great and 

 lasting iniprovesnenr, and would, hereafter, give good 

 corn. — I do not know any w'lere, after an enclosure, 

 a pariili that carries so unimproved a countenance as 

 this, unless it be the heatlis at Kelling Little or no 

 use is made of the allotments of common : they generally 

 Jie in their waste state : they say, for want of marie or clay, 

 •witliout which tnrnips are anburicd; and yet some small 

 pieces have been pared and burnt, but being exhausted by 

 repeated crops of corn, the land and the husbandry both 

 are abandoned. Some pieces have been sold since the adl 

 passed, at 40s. an acre ; at 20s. and even at 14s, as it is 

 said: yet these poor grey sands do exceedingly well for 

 potatoes; many are cultivated, and in 1799, as many 

 were produced on one acre, as would have paid the fee 

 simple of 10. 



Population.- — The register most irregularly kept, and 

 births and burials so jumbled together, that even for the 

 last eiglit or ten years (all i could get at) they are not easily 

 ascertained: 



I have little faith in the account: no resident clergy- 

 jpaa ; the case of half the county. 



FiNCHAiyi:, 



