148 ENCLOSING. 



kept half-Starved cattle, geese, &c. which were subjedt to be 

 dr'rjcn, and fined. These arc all at an end ; and the loss is 

 not what might be supposed, for they were not profitable 

 speculations by any means. The allotments of 81. los. 

 are from four to six acres of fen, near the town, subje6l 

 to inundations; the remainder in value in high fen, 4-i 

 iTiiles distant from the village ; and this circumstance 

 proves a great hardship to them : the lands which would 

 have suited them have been allotted to the great proprie- 

 tors; all they can do is to mow it: thus in the winter they 

 have no dry land on which to put their cattle. The al- 

 lotments of (en ground for fuel, to common-rights, can- 

 not be separated from the houses, neither let nor sold from 

 them, by a clause in the a6l of parliament. 



POPULATION. 



Baptisms from 1780 to 1789 - - 224 



Burials - - > 142 



Increase - - - 82 



Baptisms from 1790 to 1799 - - 232 



Burials - - - 112 



Increase - - - 120 



OVINGTON. — (see SAYHAM.) 



^uavthy. — Six hundred acres of common. 

 Rent. — Was worth 8s, an acre; will be 20s. to 22s. 

 Sheep. — Decreased . 

 Cows. — Decreased. 



OXBOROUGH. — ENCLOSED I723. 



^antity. — About 2000 acres m the parish. 



Rent, 



