Note 56 — Chapter X · ENCLOSURE AND DEPOPULATION.

Contrast with such farms those described by Cobbett 30 years later: “At one farm 27 ricks, at another 400 acres of wheat stubble in one piece, at a third a sheepfold about 4,000 sheep and lambs, at a fourth 300 hogs in one stubble, a fifth farm at Milton had 600 qrs. of wheat, 1,200 qrs. of barley of the year’s crop, and kept on an average 1,400 sheep” (pp. 363, 4, 5). “The farms are all large” (p. 361).