Present Incidence of the Land-tax in Agricultural Counties. 433 
Table I . — England 
Counties (including Towns) 
Quota of Land- 
tax imposed 
on each 
Countv by 38 
Geo. III., 17D8 
Amount of 
Land-tax Re- 
deemed from 
1798 to 1891 
Rateable Value 
as assessed to 
Poor-Rate, 1890 
Fraction of 
Penny in the £ 
showing the In- 
cidence of the 
1798 Quota 
on the Rateable 
Value 
£ 
£ 
£ 
d. 
Bedford 
28,555 
11,688 
810,319 
8-46 
Berks . 
40,844 
21,684 
1,511,654 
6-48 
Bucks 
47,143 
24,477 
893,916 
1206 
Cambridge . 
32,695 
11,486 
1,189,938 
6-59 
Chester 
28,599 
10,111 
3,670,174 
1-87 
Cornwall 
31,943 
14,793 
1,301,604 
6-89 
Cumberland 
3,714 
2,102 
1,660,633 
•53 
Derby . 
24,094 
8,677 
1,943,844 
2-97 
Devon . 
82,583 
37,244 
3,047,448 
6-45 
Dorset 
33,080 
12,273 
1,022,360 
7-77 
Durham 
10,598 
7,010 
4,055,006 
•63 
Essex . 
89,397 
50,640 
3,222,803 
6-60 
Gloucester . 
47,312 
22,837 
2,808,356 
4-04 
Hereford 
20,409 
8,272 
848,198 
5-77 
Hertford 
42,283 
24,803 
1,143,866 
8-87 
Huntingdon 
15,497 
5,126 
352,458 
10-55 
Kent . 
82,553 
48,348 
4,362,840 
4-54 
Lancaster . 
20,990 
11,279 
18,644,418 
•27 
Leicester . 
34,685 
14,500 
1,938,825 
4-29 
Lincoln 
71,907 
23,380 
2,906,983 
594 
Middlesex . 
326,146 
222,773 
34,586,625 
2-26 
Monmouth . 
9,812 
3,486 
1,176,683 
200 
Norfolk 
84,307 
24,389 
2,230,064 
907 
Northampton 
47,670 
19,625 
1,596,315 
7-17 
Northumberland 
14,549 
6,946 
2,688,026 
1-29 
Nottingham 
27,277 
10,830 
2,409,780 
2-72 
Oxon . ' 
38,722 
16,329 
1,044,522 
890 
Kutland 
5,525 
1,441 
206,562 
6-42 
Salop . 
29,057 
10,544 
1,754,809 
3-99 
Somerset 
72,473 
29,781 
2,991,785 
5-81 
Southampton 
55,362 
30,837 
3,129,108 
4-25 
Stafford 
26,700 
11,540 
4,241,325 
1-51 
Suffolk 
73,506 
25,913 
1 ,655,252 
10-66 
Surrey 
66,133 
40,271 
3,439,372 
4-61 
Sussex 
60,048 
32,295 
3,244,707 
4-44 
Warwick 
39,790 
19,239 
3,648,087 
2-62 
Worcester . 
35,518 
16,714 
1,948,106 
4-38 
Wilts . 
49,722 
21,369 
1,388.145 
8-60 
Westmoreland 
3,045 
1,830 
634,907 
1-37 
York . 
91,494 
51,436 
14,202,829 
1-55 
England . 
• 
1,945,737 
968,318 
145,452,652 
— 
1 Scotland’s quota was 47,964 1 . ; Ireland’s, of course, nothing. 
