no ENCLOSING. 



HOLM HALE, 



Hasan ihter-commonage with Ne6ionand WestBraden- 

 ham ; there are in the tlirce commons lOOO acres: Hale 

 has 300; Bradenham 200 ; and NcAon 500. The soil in 

 the low commons on a gravel bottom, with good loam sur- 

 face, but for want of draining, is much injured by water 

 in the winter. Hale has 36 common rights, which would 

 sell now for 30I. each. They turn on what horses and cows, 

 and geese they please, but no steers, sheep or hogs. There 

 is not one cottager that has a right of his own ; all farmers 

 and tradesmen. Some so lo"Cv as 5I. or 61. a year. All 

 have arright to cut flags. The same nearly occurs at Hale 

 and Bradenham ; it is a great injury to the common, and 

 if it continues long, will render it hardly worth enclosing. 

 The cattle are all turned on by the proprietors, and not 

 by the cottagers to whom the houses are let : they have 

 not a cow in tlie town ; but keep geese, 3nd cut flags. 



Sheep. — Very few sheep kept ; many bullocks grazed. 



Cows. — Not 200 ccws in the parish. 



Land. — About half grass and half arable. 



' NECTON. 



Tfie above unenclosed common of 1000 acres, with 



Bradenham and Hale. 



Baptisms from 1780 to 1789 - - 246 



Burials - - » 158 



Increase - - • 88' 



Baptisms from 1790 to 1799 - - 225 



Burials - - , 140 



Increase • • . 85 



Baptisms 



