5i6 COMPARISON OF TIMES- 



COMMUNICATION, No. 28. 



PARISH OF WIGHTON. 



One material circumstance is not inquired after, viz, 

 the increase of assessed taxes. By the establishment in 

 1790, I paid 26I. 7s. ; I now pay 47I. 4s. 6d. exclusive 

 of the property tax, and the increase of taxation upon 

 every article of consumption. 



COIVIMUNICATION, No. 2p. 



TARISH OF MARSHAM. 



F.emarks to be annexed to the Statement rcspe^ing the Rates 

 of Labour, and various Charges on Arable Farmsy in the 

 Tear 179O, and in 1804. 



The difference in the price of lahour, hetween the 

 year 1790 ano- 1804 (which I have taken from my farm 

 ex[.endituie books in those years), cannot be attributed to 

 tlie price of bread corn ; as I find, by reference to the re- 

 ceipt-book m the former of those yeais, that my wheat was 

 sold at an average of 3I. per quarter, and barley at il. 4s. 

 per quarter ; but must be traced to other causes ; one of 

 which 1 conceive to be from the high price of bread-corn 

 in the years 1800 and 1801, which obliged the employers 

 of workmen in all the different trades connedled with the 

 fanning interest, to give a considerable increase cf wages, 

 to correspond with the parish allowance granted by the 

 magi trates to those who had no employment during that 

 scarcity ; and although the price of bread-corn is reduced 

 consider.ibly mote than half since those vears, the other 

 necessaries of the poor are, since the year 1790, increased 



nearly 



