Family of Six Persons.
| Expences per Week— | £ | s. | d. |
| Bread and Flour, | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| Salt, | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Meat, | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Tea, Sugar, and Butter, | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Cheese (sometimes), | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Soap ¼ lb., Starch, etc., | 0 | 0 | 2½ |
| Candles ½ lb., Thread, etc., | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Total, | £0 | 8 | 0½ |
| Amount per Annum, | 20 | 18 | 2 |
| Rent, | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| Fuel and coals, | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Clothing, | 2 | 15 | 0 |
| Lying-in, loss of time, etc., | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Total Expenses per Annum, | £28 | 8 | 2 |
| Earnings per Week— | |||
| The man, | £0 | 7 | 6 |
| The woman, | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The children, | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Total, | £0 | 8 | 8 |
| Total Earnings per Annum, | £22 | 10 | 8 |
N.B.—To the earnings may be added what is got by gleaning.
Norfolk.—Diss, 1793.[510]
Family of Six Persons.
| Expences by the Week— | £ | s. | d. |
| Bread, flour or oatmeal, | 0 | 4 | 7½ |
| Yeast and salt, | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bacon or other meat, | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Tea, sugar, and butter, | 0 | 0 | 9¼ |
| Soap, | 0 | 0 | 2¼ |
| Candles, | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Cheese, | 0 | 0 | 5½ |
| Milk, | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Potatoes, | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Thread and worsted, | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total per Week, | £0 | 7 | 10½ |
| Total per Annum, | £20 | 9 | 6 |
| Rent, | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Fuel, | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Cloaths, | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Births, burials, sickness, | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Total Expenses per Annum, | £27 | 9 | 6 |
| Earnings per Week— | |||
| The Man, | £0 | 9 | 0 |
| The Woman, | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| The Children, | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Total, | £0 | 11 | 6 |
| Total Earnings per Annum, | £29 | 18 | 0 |
N.B.—In 1795 the earnings of this family were the same but their expenses had risen to £36, 11s. 4d. On bread they spent 8s. a week instead of 4s. 7½d.
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