RENT. 



at from ^s. to 35^. per acre, fo that the average value of a 

 farm will vary accordmg to its proportion of good and bad 

 land. Some farms of the latter kind may be let as low as 5/. 

 per acre, and fome let cheaper at 30J.; fo great is the inequa- 

 lity of the foil, that nothing accurate on this head can be 

 ftatcd. Near large towns, land for convenience in fmall par- 

 cels, and in the aggregate to no great amount, is let at 3/. or 

 4/. per acre. 



But in the weftern diftrift of that county, as about Skip- 

 ton and Settle, the lands were found to let as high as 40X. and 

 50J-. the acre ; while from the beft information in the corn 

 part of the county at the fame time, 20s. and 30^. were con- 

 fidered as a liigh rent, and in many places it was ftill much 

 lower. 



In Shropfliire, the rents of lands, where the roads are bad, 

 and the grounds little improved, are from 8/. to 12s. the fta- 

 tute acru, and in more favourable dillrifts and fituations, from 

 Ijj. to 20^. the farm together. But near towns, the price is 

 much higher, as from 21. to 61. the acre. 



And in Norfolk, according to Mr. Young, in the light 

 fand diftrift, as marked in the Survey, the average price of 

 letting is 6s, the acre ; the various loams at 1 6s. ; the better 

 fands at 12s.; the rich loams 26s. and the marfli land clays 28^. 

 In Suffolk the feveral foils are ftated to be rented as below, 

 the whole county included, fheep-walk, wafte commons. 

 See. which are very large deduftions from the rate of the cul- 

 tivated lands : 



Strong, wet loam, per acre ^ - - 



Rich loam - - - - - 



Sea diilrift of fand . . - 



Weftern dillrift of ditto 

 Fens ..... 



But in all the diftrifts, with the exception of the fen, 

 there are trafts that are let at 20s. to 2p. and even higher, 

 efpecially meadows. 



In the county of Eflex, the average rent of good landed 

 farms may be ilated at about 2cs. or 25X. the acre. They 

 have lately increafed very much in fome places. 



In Suflex, good land is rented at from zo^. to 30^-. the 

 acre, but there is a great deal let at much lower rents. 



Land has rifen much of late years in many parts of the 

 country. 



In the county of Oxford, the rent of land is very va- 

 rious. The red land lets on the average at 30J., the mifcel- 

 laneous loams at 25/.; the ftone-brafh at 20J.; and the Chil- 

 tern at i6j. the acre. Tiierc are, however, large portions of 

 land let at (till lower rents in differeut parts. 



In Chefhire, the land averages full 30J. the acre in rent 

 as farms ; and iu Lancafhire, the rent of land is equally as 

 high, if not higher. 



In tlu; very fouth-weftern diftrift of Cornwall, the rents 

 of land fluftwate very greatly, as from 5/. to 50X. the acre in 

 farms properly fo named. The circumltanccs affecling rents 

 here, befides the quality of the foil, and the afpeft or fitua- 

 tion, are the vicinity to fea fand, and to market towns. 

 There are initances of land letting very high in particular 

 fituations, as at 1 3/. the acre about Penzance. And in the 

 fame parilhes the rents of land fometimes vary from 8/. to 

 5^.; nay, even on the fame farm, not exceeding 1^0 acres, 

 i'ome parts are worth 50J., and others not ^s. the acre. 



The neiglibourhood of towns and large markets, as well 

 as of extenflve manufaftories, has, in all cafes, a tendency 

 to raife the rent of land, whether as farms or otherwife, in 

 every part of the kingdom. 



In all parts of Scotland, even in the Highlands, the rife 

 of rents has been gradual and progreffive for many years, and 

 in fome places they have been more than doubled within 

 thefe lafl twenty-five or thirty years. 



It has been Itated by Mr. Colhngfworth, of Daventry, 

 in the fourth volume of Communications to the Board of 

 Agriculture, that in refpeft to the principle of increafing 

 rents, where liberty is given to break up old grafs or pal- 

 ture lands that are under leafe, that he has known, within 

 this five years part, a double rent given for leave to plough 

 up an old palture for cropping for three years ; and that 

 confequently it appears to him that a ftatement of the ex- 

 pences and profits upon arable and pafture lands ihould be 

 Severally made out, to afcertain by how much the balance 

 of profit of the one exceeds that of the other. He there- 

 fore ftates them, upon a probable calculation, in the follow- 

 ing manner : 



Table of Expences, 



Produce. 



