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SAYHAM AND OVIKGTON. — ENCLOSED iSoO- 



^antlty. — One tlionsand six hundred acres of common; 

 no half year land. 



Soil. — A marley clay bottom at 12 to iS inclies, over 

 it a vegetable mould. Very superior land: triable loam. 



Rent. — The value nothing; for it was so overstocked, 

 that though the land is very fine, yet it would have answer- 

 ed much better to have paid a good joist price for putting 

 cattle out, thanjceeping them gratis on the common: 

 notwithstanding this circumstance, however, and the fa<Sl 

 that the common was of no value to the public, yet it cer- 

 tainly yielded a rent to the landlords of the enclosed pro- 

 perty, probably to the amount of 8s. an acre, or 640I. a 

 year. After enclosure, worth 21s. an acre. The Com- 

 inissioners, in setting out 50I. a year directed by thea£t for 

 the poor, finding that the rents of land were rising, sold 

 off a part they had intended for that purpose, for about 

 250I. and letting the remainder by auction, it produced, 

 on a 21 years lease, 98I. 13s. As this rent arose from the 

 competition of the farmers, it offers a curious anecdote 

 touching the value of land ; not, however, to be separated 

 from the price of corn. 



Course. — Mr. Crowe, who has a large portion of the 

 common, tics his tenants to either, 1. Turnip; 2. Barley; 

 3. Clover ; 4. "Wheat; or, i. Turnip; 2. Barley; 3. Grass- 

 Seeds two years; 4. then two crops of corn or pulse. 

 Corn. — An immense increase. 



Sheep. — There will be fewer sheep kept ; they often rotted 

 before ; now none. There was a walk on one of Mr. 

 Crowe's farms for 36 score ewes, on this common and that 

 of Ovington, and the two tenants, for the last eleven years, 

 did not make a shilling profit, such were the losses. The 



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