L4,007
Profit 1,589
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L5,596
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CR. L

Corn, hay, potatoes, and like product sold 655
Live stock, poultry, dairy produce, and wool sold 4,941
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L5,596
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The reductions of rents in various counties were estimated thus[689]:

Per cent. Per cent.

Northumberland 20 to 25 Hereford 20 to 30
Cumberland 20 to 40 Somerset 20 to 40
York 10 to 50 Oxford 25 to 50
Lancaster 5 to 30 Suffolk up to 70
Stafford 10 to 25 Essex 25 to 100
Leicester 40 Kent 15 to 100
Nottingham 14 to 50 Hants 25 to 100
Warwick 25 to 60 Wilts 10 to 75
Huntington 40 to 50 Devon 10 to 25
Derby 14 to 25 Cornwall 10 to 100

This large reduction in the rent rolls of landowners has materially
affected their position and weakened their power. Many, indeed, have
been driven from their estates, while others can only live on them by
letting the mansion house and the shooting, and occupying some small
house on the lands they are reluctant to leave. The agricultural
depression, which set in about 1875, may in short be said to have
effected a minor social revolution, and to have completed the ruin of
the old landed aristocracy as a class. The depreciation of their
rents may be judged from the following figures[690]:

Gross annual value of lands, including
tithes, under Schedule A in England. Decrease.

1879-80 1893-4 Amount. Per cent.
L L L

48,533,340 36,999,846 11,533,494 23.7

These figures, however, are far from indicating the full extent of
the decline in the rental value of purely agricultural land, as they
include ornamental grounds, gardens, and other properti