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Amusements-Games.

84. Enumerate the usual popular games and amusements of the

district?

85. Are they peculiar in that particular part of the country?

86. Are the peasantry partial to their accustomed games?

Population.

87. What is the earliest date to which reference can be made for

ascertaining the number of inhabitants?

88. Give the particulars of the census taken at the different periods under the directions of the acts of parliament?

89. State the increase or decrease on comparing the results at the termination of each of the above periods?

90. What is the number of births, deaths, and marriages, in each year, from the earliest records, with any remarkable entries in the register?

91. What proportion does the number of illegitimate children bear to the legitimate?

92. Can an approximation to the population of former times be made by comparing the births, &c. of those times with the entries since the exact population has been ascertained by parliamentary census?

93. What number of houses, with a comparative statement of increase or decrease, from authentic documents, if such exist; if not, from the best information?

Health, Disorders, &c.

94. What disorders are most prevalent?

95. Are there any general or particular causes to which they can be attributed?

96. Is the district or parish on the whole healthy?

97. What is the proportion of births to funerals?

98. Within a given time, a year for instance, enumerate the causes of death in the persons buried?

99. What is the proportion of funerals, per cent. on the population? 100. What instances are there of longevity?

101. Are any disorders more prevalent at one season of the year than another; if so, mention the probable causes?

102. Is the number of insane persons considerable, and (if not from birth) to what causes may their cases be attributed?

103. Mention any unusual effect or defect occurring in individuals from particular disorders or accidents?

Idiom, Dialect, Phraseology, Character.

104. Are there many words or phrases peculiar to the people of the district or parish?

105. What is the characteristic of the common dialect?

106. Does it differ materially from the common language spoken in

the adjacent parts of the country?

107. From education or other causes may any change in the colloquial language be anticipated?

Dress, State of Dwellings, Habits of Life.

108. Is there any peculiarity in the style and manner of dress? 109. Is any part of it, and what, manufactured by themselves? 110. Are their habits cleanly or otherwise?

111. Of what materials are their cottages and farmhouses usually built?

112. In what state are they kept; in good order or otherwise? 113. What is their ordinary food-at breakfast, dinner, &c; at what hours, and of how many meals do they partake per day?

Manufactures and Occupations.

114. Enumerate the different manufactures, with the numbers employed in each?

115. Is there any peculiarity in the mode of carrying them on? 116. Are they generally of a nature to afford a fair remuneration and support to those engaged in them?

117. What effect do they produce on the health, morals, &c? 118. If connected with weaving, how many yards, per day of twelve hours, can a good labourer produce?*

119. How many days per week, and hours per day, do they usually work?

Parochial Economy, Tables, Calculations, &c.

120. What is the amount of poor rates per pound?

121. What number of persons receive relief, resident and non-resident? 122. What is the usual weekly sum granted to man, woman, and child, when necessity requires that a whole family should be provided for?

123. Is there a workhouse or poorhouse in the parish; if so, how many is it calculated to contain, and how many does it usually contain?

124. What is the usual employment of the inmates?

125. What is the expense per head; per week, month, or year? 126. Is it under good regulations?

127. What are the rules; and are they strictly observed?

128. What is the common employment of the pauper population? 129. Have the poor rates increased or diminished within given times? state the probable causes of the increase or decrease?

130. To what pursuits and occupations are the peasantry addicted? 131. What is the usual daily amount of wages for men, women, and

children?

132. What is the average rent of a labourer's cottage? 133. Generally speaking, do they cultivate gardens, rear poultry, bees, pigs, or attend to any other particular branch of domestic economy, whereby their incomes may be improved?

134. How are the poor laws administered: whether by special vestry, monthly meetings, or otherwise?

This query is applicable to any other produce or measurement, and is interesting in its application to other branches of manufacture, when the quantity of production can be ascertained.

135. Is there an evident inclination amongst the peasantry to avail themselves of parochial relief; or do they consider it as degrading?

136. The following Forms may afford much useful information, when carefully filled up under the separate items. The first, upon population and expenditure, is supposed to apply to a parish subdivided into three townships, or hamlets, A, B, and C:

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Of this Table it is necessary to remark whether the assessment on property is at its full, or fractional value; and whether the proportion in the last column is calculated on the gross amount levied, or on the sum actually paid on account of the poor, and cost of management.

137. The following is filled up; being the mean result of repeated inquiries amongst the agricultural labourers in a northern county.

Receipt and Expenditure of a Labourer's Family,

consisting of Father, Mother, and three Children,
the latter earning nothing.

RECEIPTS.

£ 8. d.

Wages of the husband, at 128. per week......... 31 4 0
Ditto,

wife, 38.

Garden produce by potatoes, 24 bushels, at 28.

per bushel......

Ditto other produce, vegetables, and fruit ........
Pig, parts disposed of.....

Sundries, about

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138. Expenditure of the same family:—

Potatoes, about 12 load, or 36 bushels, at 68.
per load
Salt, about 56 lb. or 1 bushel per an..........................do.
Cheese, about 2 lb. per week, at 6d. per lb...do.
Meal, bread, and flour, about 48. per week... do.
Butter, about 1 lb. per week.......

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Soap, 1lb. per week

Tea, 6d. per week

for man and his wife

Ditto for children

Rent...

Milk...........

Pepper and spices, 2d. per week..............do. 0 10

Clothing, including bedding and shoes, &c.

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Turnpike and other Roads; and Canal Railways.

139. What is the total length of turnpike roads in the parish?

140. What is the total length of private roads?

141. What is the mode of repair adopted in each?

142. With what places do the turnpike and other private roads

communicate?

143. What is the expence per mile for the turnpike roads?

144. What tolls are collected on them?

145. What are the prices given for materials, such as gravel, paving stones, per ton?

146. What is the expence per ton for breaking large stones for roads?

147. What public carriages travel on the roads?

148. Is the traffic and communication in a state of increase or

decrease?

149. What is the mode adopted by the trustees of the turnpike roads for keeping them in repair; whether by general surveyors and inspectors, or minor overlookers, working by contract, or otherwise?

150. What is the general character of the by-parochial roads?

151. Is there any peculiarity respecting the management of the bye roads, either in the mode of superintendance, or provision for their repair?

152. Are there any canals; if so, mention their points of communication, and levels above the sea?

153. When were they made?

154. Are there any rail-roads, or other modes of conveyance? 155. When were they made, and for what purpose?

Agriculture.

156. What proportion does the arable bear to the pasture land? 157. What is the usual course of tillage?

158. What grain or vegetable production is chiefly cultivated?

159. Is there any experimental agriculture, or other crop of an unusual description?

160. What quantity of wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, turnips, hay, &c. is usually produced on a statute acre as a fair average crop? 161. Mention any well attested instances of extraordinary production from a given quantity of land?

162. Are the crops consumed at home, or exported?

163. To what markets are they usually sent?

164. By what weights and measures are various agricultural productions sold?

165. What is the manure usually applied, and in what proportions, to the statute acre? and what are the respective prices of these different manures per load, ton, &c., and from whence are they led?

166. Is the population sufficient for the operations of agriculture? 167. Are there extensive forests or plantations? To which species of timber does the soil appear most congenial, and state the nature of the soil where the largest trees are flourishing?

168. Are there any fine specimens of timber-trees; if so, name their ages, height, and girth; and, if possible, the number of feet of timber ascertained to have been produced in any tree?

169. What species of cattle and sheep are preferred?

170. What is the average daily produce of milk from a good cow? 171. What is the usual mode of treatment; whether stall fed? 172. If cheese is made, what is the average produce from a farm, say of one hundred statute acres, or given number of cows? 173. What is the usual rate of hiring per day for carts, with one, two, or three horses?

174. Is there a general spirit of improvement visible? Are the lands drained, or cultivated according to new or improved methods? 175. Are there any meetings or societies for the encouragement of agriculture, horticulture, or other branches of domestic economy?

176. What is the usual fuel, and price of?

177. Is there much waste land left uninclosed? State the dates and extent of the principal inclosures, and what was the mode adopted for effecting them?

178. What is the average price of land per statute acre? Mention MARCH, 1827.

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