About 700 acres were sold to discharge the expenses.
The drainage and division into parochial allotments was a preliminary to enclosure of the different parochial shares, which was of course made easier by the fact that 55% of the claims had already been disallowed. In the years 1796, ’97, and ’98, fourteen Enclosure Acts for the different parishes were passed.
(Butleigh and Woollavington, 1796. Aller, Ashcott, Compton Dundon, Higham, Othery, Moorlinch, Somerton, Street, and Weston Zoyland, 1797. Bridgwater, Chedjoy, and Midellzoy, 1798.)
Billingsley estimated that the total cost of subdividing parochial allotments would be £28,000.
He also estimated that the value of the land rose from 10s. to 35s. an acre.
APPENDIX B
Bedfordshire.—Clopshill, 1795.[504]
Family of Six Persons.
| Expences by the Week— | £ | s. | d. |
| Bread, flour, or oatmeal, | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| Yeast and salt, | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Thread and worsted, | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bacon or other meat, | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Tea, sugar, and butter, | 0 | 0 | 10½ |
| Soap, | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Candles, | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Beer, | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Total of the Week, | £0 | 11 | 8½ |
| Amount per Annum, | £30 | 8 | 10 |
| Rent, | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Wood, | 1 | 12 | 6 |
| Cloaths, | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Sickness, | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Total Expences per Annum, | £35 | 18 | 4 |
| Earning per Week— | |||
| The man, | £0 | 7 | 6 |
| The woman, | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| The children, | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Total of the Week, | £0 | 13 | 0 |
| Total Earnings per Annum, | £33 | 16 | 0 |
N.B.—‘The Harvest earnings not included: they go a great way towards making up the deficiency.’