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Beer.] They have generally bought their beer at a. 
public-houfe. But, in Auguft laft, the poor man 
brewed two bufhels of malt, in a large brafs kettle, 
which is very commonly let out to the poor. It is an 
old one, but belongs to a cleanly houfewife. 
Bread.] We have no rye. This family have been 
ufed to buy two bufhels of clog-wheat , or rivets , or 
bearded-weat , (as it is varioufly called in this county) 
every fortnight. Of this they have made their houfe- 
hold bread. This wheat they have bought of the 
farmer, whom I lodge with, who tells me, that laft 
year he had l'ome wheat laid , which he gathered, 
and threfhed feparately, left it fhould fpoil his famples. 
Not that it was mildewed, or grown, but only dif- 
coloured, and final ler than the other. This damaged 
wheat he threfhed laft Chriftmas ; and then this poor 
family ufed no bread, but what was made of it, as 
like wife did the farmer’s own family, and fome others 
in the neighbourhood. We oblerved, that it made 
bad bread, and worfe puddings ; but I do not find, 
that it dilagreed with any body. A labouring man of 
the parifh, who had ufed this bread, was affedted with 
a numbnefs in both his hands, for about four weeks 
from the ninth of January. His hands were con- 
tinually cold, and his fingers ends peeled. One 
thumb, he fays, ftill remains without any fenfation. 
Kitchen utenfils.] They have two fmall iron pots, 
which have long been in ufe. In thefe they boiled 
their pork, peafe, &c. They have likewile two brafs 
Jkillets , rather old, in which they boiled milk, &c. 
The man tells me, they are in Cendant ufe, and never 
were cankered. 
Peafe.] 
