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Table III . — Present Incidence of the Land-tax in the Hundred 
of Clackclose, Norfolk. 
Parish 
Quota of Land- 
tax imposed on 
each Parish by 38 
Geo. in., 1798 
Amount of Land- 
tax Bedeemed 
from 1798 to 1891 
Bateable 
Value as 
assessed to 
Poor-Bate, 
1890 
Fractions of 
One Penny in 
the £ showing 
the Incidence 
of the 1798 
Quota on the 
BateabieValue 
£ 
s. 
<l. 
£ 
X. 
d. 
£ 
d. 
Barton Bendish . 
149 
8 
0 
10 
12 
0 
3,341 
10-7 
Bexwell 
63 
10 
0 
4 
8 
0 
1,477 
9-5 
Boughton . . 
74 
8 
0 
13 
8 
0 
1,580 
11-2 
Crimplesham 
89 
12 
0 
34 
0 
0 
2,206 
9-7 
Denver . . , 
148 
12 
0 
72 
4 
0 
4,774 
7-4 
Dereham, West . 
207 
4 
0 
113 
13 
4 
3,601 
13 g 7 
Downham Market 
120 
17 
3 
17 
15 
10,982 
2-6 
Fincham 
179 
6 
0 
38 
2 
0 
4,147 
10-8 
Fordham 
127 
18 
0 
9 
19 
7 
2,427 
12-5 
Hilgay . 
223 
16 
0 
60 
18 
8 
9,002 
6'9 
Marham 
132 
12 
0 
14 
8 
0 
3,198 
9-9 
Roxliam 
35 
8 
0 
3 
11 
0 
584 
14-3 
Runcton Holme (and 
1 
84 
10 
6 
38 
G 
6 
P.601I 
8-0 
South Runcton) 
J 
l 911/ 
Ryston . 
36 
16 
0 
3 
13 
6 
799 
10-8 
Shouldham . 
120 
6 
0 
20 
18 
0 
3,058 
9-4 
Shouldham Thorpe 
86 
12 
0 
7 
3 
6 
1,566 
131 
Southery . . 
124 
9 
0 
5 
16 
0 
6,179 
5-7 
Stoke Ferry . . 
138 
8 
0 
60 
5 
8 
3,718 
8-9 
Stow Bardolph 
145 
14 
0 
12 
9 
0 
7,828 
4-4 
Stradsett . . 
98 
16 
0 
9 
8 
0 
1,621 
14-5 
Tottenhill . . 
69 
10 
4 
17 
12 
0 
1,925 
8-6 
Wallington . 
90 
0 
0 
70 
15 
8 
1,393 
15-5 
Watlington . 
132 
0 
0 
10 
18 
0 
3,668 
86 
Welney. 
41 
18 
0 
13 
4 
0 
4,737 
21 
Wereham 
127 
5 
0 
66 
4 
4 
3,295 
92 
Wimbotsliam . 
102 
12 
0 
7 
3 
0 
2,475 
9-8 
Wormegay . 
104 
14 
0 
36 
3 
4 
2,535 
9-8 
Wretton 
96 
13 
0 
53 
10 
2 
1,461 
15-7 
the securing of our naval supremacy, and thus, with cheap freights, 
has aided in bringing the untaxed lands beyond the seas into fierce 
competition with our own cornfields. 
Mr. F. Stevenson’s motion a short time since in the House of 
Commons, to the effect that there should be no increase of the land- 
tax on small properties, was based on the presumption that the 
land-tax was a species of income-tax on the individual, and he 
proposed, practically, that it should be similarly treated, by granting 
exemption or abatement on the smaller incomes. Sir William 
Harcourt, in reply, stated that the land-tax had become a rent- 
charge on the land of the country, but he thought that although this 
