ENCLOSING. 2!;3 



Expenses. — About I500I. 



Present General State. — A very large part of the parish, 

 from being left in warren, has, to the eye, the same dreary, 

 uncultivated, barbarous state, as so many otiier common 

 heaths in the neighbourliood. Those animals are never 

 found but in deserts, and it seems to iiave been a straof^e 

 exertion to have gone to parliament for powers to leave 

 any part -of a parish in such a state. The sail is certainly 

 not good ; but turnips worth 40s. and ten coombs an acre 

 pf oats, are proofs that the land might be profitabl) culti- 

 vated in an alternate husbandry of sheep-walk and corn. 

 Their manner of breaking up and leaving to rot two years, 

 explains the failure; this has been tried in various parts of 

 the kingdom ; and almost every where, whether it fails or 

 not, pi oved unprofitable. It should be pared or burnt for 

 t-urnips or cole, and laid down to grass ; burnet, chicorv, 

 cocksfoot, Yorkshire white, and a little ray, and beino- 

 well loaded with sheep as long as it would last, and clayed 

 ar not, would prepare for one crop of corn to lav down 

 again. But the notion that the land is good for nothino' 

 but rabbits, makes it so. 



POPULATION. — SALT-HOUSE. 



ijapt^isms twenty years before the enclosure - 164 

 Burials . „ - _ _ 128 



Increase 



3^ 



Baptioms twenty years since the enclosure - 121 



Burials - - - - lo'? 



Increase - - - - 18 



This is a singular instance ; for population has unques- 

 tionably declined, as far as this document proves any thing, 

 and considerably too, whether the increase or the baptisms 

 jbe confided in. 



"^ KELLING. 



