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John Meads 2020
Burton Latimer Crop Returns 1794-5

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below was taken

Poor harvests in the late 1780s and early 1790s, together with the increase in the urban population at the expense of the rural areas, meant that the government was faced with the prospect of food shortages. It needed to be able to predict the supply of cereals from British farms to enable it to form its import policy. To aid this, in 1794 and 1795 parishes officers were ordered to gather details of the cereal crop from all the farms in their parish. Unfortunately, the returns failed to provide the government with the information it needed resulting in the export of corn being forbidden.

The underwritten is an Account of the Produce of several Articles of Grain within
the Several Parishes in the Hundred of Huxloe, as delivered in by the several Petty
Constables .....................................................................................….
The Burton Latimer figures above show in 1795 it produced: Wheat-580 quarters, Barley
800 qrs, Rye-nil, Oats-50 qrs, Beans-466 qrs. In 1794: Wheat-600 qrs, Barley-780 qrs
Rye-nil, Beans-470 qrs.
We whose names are hereunto set, being one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for
the said County of Northampton, acting for the Division of Kettering, do hereby Certify
that the above is an account of the Produce of the several articles of Grain within the
said Hundred of Huxloe, as delivered in by the several Petty Constables for the years
1794 and 1795. Given under our Hands the 27th day of November1795 .....................….
E. Griffin
Thos C Maunsell
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