Wheat 3,416,750 27 11,531,531
Barley 1,416,750 38 6,729,562
Oats and rye 2,000,000 44 11,000,000
Clover and seeds 2,277,750
Beans and peas 1,139,000 30 4,271,250
Turnips, marigolds, & potatoes 2,116,750
Rape and fallow 1,300,000

Davenant, at the end of the seventeenth century, made the following estimate showing the importance of wool in English trade[762]:—­

Annual income of England        L43,000,000
Yearly rent of land              10,000,000
Value of wool shorn yearly        2,000,000
"      woollen manufactures    10,000,000

Thus the rents of land formed nearly one-fourth the total income of the country, and wool paid one-fifth of the rents.[763]

In the eighteenth century a great quantity of wool was smuggled out of England in defiance of the law; in the space of four months in 1754, 4,000 tods was ‘run’ into Boulogne.[764]

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL WOOL
IMPORTED INTO ENGLAND.[765]

lb.

1766 1,926,000 1771 1,829,000 1780 323,000 1790 2,582,000 1800 8,609,000 1810 10,914,000 1820 9,775,000 1830 32,305,000 1840 49,436,000 1850 74,326,000 1855 99,300,000 1857 127,390,000

PRICES OF LABOUR IN SURREY IN 1780.[766]

s. d.

Day labourer, per day, in winter                             1   4
"           "     in summer                             1   6
Reaping wheat, per acre                                      7   0
"          "      and according to the crop up to     12   0
Mowing barley, per acre                                      2   6
"   oats,     "                               1s. 6d. to  2   0
"   grass     "                                           2   6
Hand-hoeing turnips, per acre, first time                    6   0
"              "      second time                   4   0
Thatching hayricks, per square of 100 ft.                    1   0
Washing and shearing sheep, per score                        3   0
Ploughing light land, per acre                               5   0
"     stiff   "     "                           7s. to  10   0
Common hurdles, each                                             5

OCCUPIERS OF LAND.

In 1816 there were said to be 589,374 occupiers of land in Great Britain[767]—­

With incomes under L50 114,778
Between L50 and L150 432,534
Over L150 42,062
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589,374
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In 1907 there were 510,954 occupiers of one acre and more.

MULHALL’S CALCULATION OF AVERAGE ANNUAL WAGES IN ENGLAND.

Bailiff.  Shepherd.  Labourer.  Woman.  Boy.