Dorset.—Sherborne, 1789.[505]

Family of Five Persons.

Expences per Week—£s.d.
Bread,030
Salt,001½
Meat,008
Tea, etc.,002[506]
Cheese,007
Milk,004
Soap,002½
Candles,006
Thread, etc.,001
Total,£058
Amount per Annum,£14148
Rent,200
Fuel,3180
Clothes, etc.,100
Total Expences per Annum,£21 128
Earnings per Week—
The man,£060
The woman,026
Total,£086
Total Earnings per Annum,£2220

Hampshire.—Long Parish, 1789.[507]

Family of Six Persons.

Expences per Week—£s. d.
Bread or Flour,050
Yeast and Salt,003
Bacon or other Meat,010
Tea, Sugar, and Butter,006
Cheese,005
Soap, Starch, and Blue,002
Candles,002
Thread, Thrum, and Worsted,003
Total,£079
Amount per Annum,£2030
Rent, Fuel (‘both very high and scarce’), Clothes, Lying-in, etc.,700
Total Expences per Annum,£2730
Earnings per Week—
The man,£080
The woman,010
Total,£090
Total Earnings per Annum,£2380

Herts.—Hinksworth, 1795.[508]

Family of Six Persons.

Expences by the Week—£ s.d.
Bread, flour, or oatmeal,0 105
Heating the oven,004
Yeast and salt,004
Bacon or pork,034
Tea, sugar, and butter,019½
Soap,005
Cheese,007½
Candles,004
Small beer,006¾
Milk,004
Potatoes,013
Thread and worsted,004
Total of the Week,£100½
Amount per Annum,£5222
Rent,200
Cloaths,65 10
Fuel, coal, wood, etc.,3 153
Births and burials,136
Total Expences per Annum,£6569
Earnings per Week—
The man,£092¾
The woman,016
The children,048
Total of the Week,£0 154¾
Total Earnings per Annum,£4007

Northamptonshire.—Castor, 1794.[509]