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End ways about 4 foot high with an Edge to it or by a Break
or some other Engine which may be moved by water or
Otherwise.

The Stalks of Course Hemp grows to 10 or 12 foot high
but is comonly 7 foot, & should not be Less than 5 1/2 or 6 foot
high.

The Premiums Allowed by Act of Parliament for all Hemp
Imported from fforeign Plantations is 6£ p Tunn.

Encouragement for Sowing Land with Hemp.
Land in England for wheat worth 20' an Acre is worth for

U.H.J.

Hemp from 40^s to 50^s, And is so lett for a Terme of years. An
Acre of Land ploughed Sowed & hemp Come up is generally
worth (at Seam in Cambridge Shire) and Sold for £4 an Acre
And if likely to prove well for £5.
An Acre of Land produces as hath been already observed
about 120 Stone & is sold from 2^s to 4^s a Stone that is from 16
to £32 a Tunn And the seed from 8^s to 20^s & to 40^s a Comb
According to its goodness, however att 20^sh a Comb Supposing
an Acre to produce 5 Combs is £5 & 120 Stone of Hemp at 3^s
a Stone is i8£ which together is £23 the medium or Ordinary
produce of an Acre.
The best seed is used for raising hemp for makeing Linnen
which must be drawn before it produces seed And will make
Cloth worth 2^s 6^d p yard when whitened wears very fine & is
Vastly Strong.
Seed laid up dry will keep good Several years, Seed makes
good Oyle for the Soap boylers

And His Excellency likewise lays before this house the Act
of Parliament mentioned in the Lords Com^rs of Trade their
Letters af^d for the perusall of all Concernd.

The House Adjourns Untill to Morrow Eight a Clock

Friday morning Aprill 22^d 1720
The House meett according to Adjournment
Present

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Col Holland

Esq^r Lloyd

Col Young

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