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1784, viz., 80 lbs. at 5d. per lb. and 75 lbs. at 6d., a total of £ 3 10s. iod., which was 10s. iod. more than his rent, whilst a certain Thomas John's wife sold £ 2 worth of butter from her cow, which was 10s. more than her rent. If butter alone could more than pay a small farmer's rent, it seems that the comparatively large-scale dairy farming practised at Highmead was not an unprofitable concern. B. G. CHARLES The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth