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General view of the agriculture of the county of Somerset : with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up in the year 1795, for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By John Billingsley, Esq; ... and now re-printed with considerable additions and amendments, .. / John Billingsley
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OF SOMERSETSHIRE- 21

CHAP CORES

SAE OF PROPERE E

/3- SAE PESE Eftates and Tenures.

A EE are in this diftri&t many large proprietors

from 20001. to v000l. per annum; but ſtill the greateſt part is poſſeſſed by the middle claſs, holding from ‘- L to 5001. per annum. Part is.leaſed out on lives; part is in demeſne, and let out for ſhort terms; and no ſmall quantity is the fee of the occupiers, conſ tituting a moſt ſpectable yeomanry.

To thoſe who are ſenſible of the importance of agricul- ture to ſociety, a contemplation of the cauſes which have principally contributed to its advancement in this county cannot but be highly intereſting. And foremoſt, we may ſafely rank, the alienation of property, whereby lands, hereto- fore 1 neglected and comparatively barren, have been advanced from ſuch their unprodudive ſtate to a condition hi ehly

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fertile and produttive, Next, the increaſed population and extenſion of manufactures; together with the enlargement of the city of Bath.

Certain lands now held by their ancient tenures, and conſequently but little improved, preſent a lively portraiture of the former diſgraceful ſtate of the county, when contraſted.

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with its preſent ſtate of comparative perfetion,

 
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