THE lordfhip of Pocklington extends  about three miles and an half in length : it contains about 2600 acres:  it's population is 305 families.; and, probably, about 1500 inhabitants.
150 houfes, of which 45 are double tenements, pay the window-rax ; 36 are exempted,     176 of the inhabitants are employed in various handicraft trades; 520 in agriculture; and 30 in commerce. A machine is erected here for fpinning worfted, but, at prefent, it is not employed.

The inhabitants are chiefly of the Eftabliflied Church ; there are, how­ever, 'many Methodifts, five Roman Catholic families, an Emigrant preacher, and a Calvinift, in the parilh. The prices of provifions are: beef, from 5d. to 8d. the Ib.; mutton, veal, and lamb, 6d.; wheat, 10s. 6d. the bufhel ; rye, 7s. ditto ; and all other grain in proportion ; butter, from 9d. to 1s. the Ib. Labourers' wages are about 2s. a day; their diet is very variable. Here are 13 ale-houfes; and two Friendly Societies, both of which are in a flourifhing ftate; the rules of one have been con­firmed by the magiftrates.
The rent of land is from £1. to £1. 10s. the acre.
Farms are from £20. to upwards of £l00. a year : the principal articles of cultivation are, wheat, beans, white-peafe, clover, oats, and potatoes.
225 acres of land were enclofed in the year 1756; of the remainder, one half is in tillage, and the other half in grafs.
Tithes are taken by compofition.
The land-tax is £127. 4s.; and the net rental £857.
The Poor moftly refide in a poor-houfe: they have been farmed for thefe laft 20 years ; at firft they were farmed at 1s. 6d. a week; after­wards at 1s. 8d. and now coft 2s. a week, each perfon: there are, at prefent, about 20 Paupers in the houfe.

A Table of Diet obferved In the Poor-houfe.

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