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STATISTICAL RECORDS OF THE PARISH, 1796.
The Rev. Peter Primrose was appointed to the parish in 1796. The Statistical Record was published that year; thus it looks as if the work had been compiled by his predecessor, the Rev. John Trotter. From it we quote the following curious and interesting items: —

RENTS—PRODUCE—PRICE OK GOODS AND PRICE OF
LABOUR,
"Rents of lands £1 11s. to £3 10s. per acre. Annual medium produce: —Wheat, 9 to 13 bolls per acre; barley, 7 to 12 bolls per acre; oats, 8 to 15 bolls per acre; beans, 9 to 15 bolls per acre; peas, 6 to 10 bolls per acre: potatoes, 30 to 50 tons per acre; hay, 230 to 300 stones per acre.
Wages and price of labour: —Man-servant £5 and maidservant £3 sterling per annum; man-servant out of house 6 1/2 bolls of oatmeal, money and other perquisites from £5 16s. to £6 11s. 6d. and free house of 10s. or 12s. value, and diet in harvest. Day labourers employed the whole season, rod. per day; occasionally employed, is. per day; women employed in weeding, 5d. per day. A man in harvest 10d. per day and diet, value 6d; a woman in harvest, 7d. per day and diet value 6d.; a mason, is. 8d., a carpenter, is. 6d. to 1s. 10d. per day; a tailor, 6d. per day and diet.
Plowing an acre of land cost 10s.; harrowing, 2s.; cutting grass, 2s. to 2s. 6d.; cutting grain, 6s. per acre.
Price of beef, 3d. to 4 1/2d. per lb.; mutton and veal, 3d. to 5d.; pork, 3d. to 4d.; good lamb, is. to 3s. per quarter; fowls, is. each; pigeons, 2s. to 3s. per dozen; eggs, 4d. to 8d. per dozen; butter, early season, 1s.,; late, 9d. per lb. of twenty ounce Dutch.

STATISTICAL ACCOUNT—SALT PANS, ETC.
There are ten salt pans, but only six working. When weather is dry and coal good a pan may draw five times a week. Each draught requires three fillings of water, and yields, in summer eighteen bushels, in winter about sixteen, the difference is owing to the sea water being stronger in summer than winter. When the sea water is good a Scotch gallon of it will yield of salt nearly 1 lb. avoirdupois. A bushel of salt contains 8 gallons, weight 56 lbs.; sells 3s. per bushel. Average made during last five years, 10,750 bushels
4 gallons per year. Cost of a salt pan about £300.

STONE WARE.
A manufactory of stoneware, white and cream chiefly, is carried on a little to the west of the church. It commenced about 1756, and belongs to Messrs Cadell. It employed forty men and thirty boys. Wages, men, 6s. to 15s. —earn more by the piece—boys wage, 1s. to 2s. per week. Boys are taken on at eight years of age, continue till fourteen or fifteen, then bound as apprentices. The clay is brought from Devonshire and flint from Gravesend. Twenty-four tons of coal consumed weekly, price 5s. 6d. per ton laid down at the work. White and red lead from London, Hull, and Newcastle. Clay, 10s. per ton, freight 14s. Flint, 18s. to 20s. per ton, freight, 8s. Sales of earthenware computed at £5, 000 per annum.

BRICK AND TILE WORK.
A brick and tile work is going near the old church; six men employed; wages, is. per day.

OTHER BRICK AND TILE WORKS.
A little to the west of the above, but on the sea-side, is another brick and tile work; nine kilns are fired; three men; wages, 7s. per week. Tiles, including a duty of 8s., sold at £2 13s. per 1000; bricks, including a duty of 2s. 6d., sold at 17s. 6d. per 1000.

BROWN WARE.
About one hundred years previously (1696) a manufactory of brown ware was commenced here.

GLASS WORK.
A glass-house for bottle making was erected at Morrison's Haven some time after the foregoing, and continued for some years.

OIL OF VITRIOL, ETC.
A manufactory of oil of vitriol, aquafortis, and spirit of salt is carried on here. It began Anno Domino 1750, under
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