140 ENCLOSING. 



more solid peat under the furrows : tills furrow shouM 

 have been burnt, and the next would then have yielded 

 good crops of any sort. 



A vast improvement on such a Fen, would be to pare artd 

 burn, and sow chicory, and feed, and trample well for two 

 years, to consolidate ; then to break up for cole, and after 

 it corn. 



The fen of Downham, Outwell, Wimsbotsliam, and 

 Stow, under an adl for draining, four years ago, extend- 

 ing to Old Podyke ; and they are now at work. 



The tradl on to which Stowbridge leads, and marked in 

 Ithe new map as fen, is under cultivation. 



MARSHAM. 



Enclosed in the same bill with Heveningham. 



^mntity. — The common 5 or 600 acres ; and so bad as 

 not to be a great objedl'; but the half year lands several 

 hundred acres. 



Tit^e. — Remains subjedt. 



POPULATION, 



Baptisms from 1780 to 1789 - - 152 



195 



Burials 

 Increase 



43 



Baptisms from 1790101799 - - 196 



Burials - _ 90 



Increase - .. _ .106 



LITTLE MASSINGHAM. 



Baptisms from 1780 to 1789 - - - 37 



Burials - - - 29 



Decrease - - - 8 



Baptisms 



