434 Present Incidence of the Land-tax in Agricultural Counties. 
Table II.— Wales. 
Counties (including Towns) 
Quota of Land- 
tax imposed 
on each 
County by 38 
Geo. III., 1798 
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. 
Angles ea 
1,633 
651 
129,584 
302 
Brecon 
3,052 
1,098 
292,525 
2-50 
Cardigan 
1,373 
498 
308,796 
107 
Carmarthen 
4,370 
1,439 
497,547 
2-11 
Carnarvon . 
2,337 
718 
495,517 
113 
Denbigh 
6,800 
1,937 
560,864 
2-91 
Flint . 
2,315 
895 
184,140 
302 
Glamorgan . 
7,906 
2,289 
3,018,642 
•62 
Merioneth . 
2,433 
528 
286,878 
204 
Montgomery 
5,853 
1,584 
416,055 
3-38 
Pembroke . 
3,173 
1,587 
367,648 
207 
Radnor 
2,692 
937 
105,160 
614 
Wales 
43,937 
14,161 
6,663,356 
— 
England . 
1,945,737 
968,318 
145,452,652 
— 
England and Wales 
1,989,674 
982,479 
152,116,008 
— 
at the time when wheat was the greatest source of wealth in the 
country, and now that it is at the lowest price ever known the same 
quota is exacted, whilst there are no other industries to take their 
share in the burden. 
In Tables I. and II. this is shown very clearly, the incidence on 
agricultural enterprise being enormous, compared with that on com- 
mercial interests. 
In Table III. I have taken the hundred of Clack close, in West 
Norfolk, as a good example of a purely agricultural district. It has 
practically no manufactures, the chief products being wheat and 
barley. 
We see (Table I.) that although the incidence in Norfolk is 9 - 07 
pence (just over ninepence in the pound), or thirty-three times as 
much as Lancashire, it does not represent the difference between, say, 
the purely corn-growing and the manufacturing industry, because in 
the parish of Wretton (Table III.), for example, the tax is 15‘7 pence 
in the pound, or fifty-eight times as much as in Lancashire. It may be 
added that in this parish many cottages are empty and half the 
land is uncultivated. 
It is worthy of note that since the first imposition of this tax it 
has been made use of for naval and military purposes, and has 
directly assisted in the conquest and absorption of our various colonies, 
