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Journal of the House of Lords
… the Chair. The Reverend John Thomas Becher is called in, and examined as follows: Where do you reside? At Southwell, … Acres, divided by the Total Number of Families employed in Agriculture, give for every such Family in Nottinghamshire … until I saw Agriculture progressively advancing towards Horticulture, according to the Quality and Capability of the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. Thomas Partington Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: Where do you reside? At Offham, in … Labour, or in that Labour which is subsidiary to Agriculture; for instance, the Carpenters and the Blacksmiths … of Labourers beyond that which could be employed in Agriculture; is that the Case in other Parishes in your …
Journal of the House of Lords
… the Chair. The Reverend John Thomas Becher is called in, and further examined as follows: Can it be humane or politic … as we have Land at Home which is capable of being improved and made more productive? [312] In regard to this as well as … to it by an injurious Superabundance of Population; and no Inhabitant would be aided to remove unless when the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. Thomas Chapman Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: What are you? I am a Land Agent and Surveyor. Have you been much engaged in Inclosure Bills? … the Neighbourhood of London, in the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey. Can you state the Expence of obtaining an …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. Thomas Partington Esquire is called in, and further examined as follows: Have you any Statement that … reduced to the Amount, in many instances, of One Third, and in some few as much as One Half; and also that where … made with a view to repay us. Have you any Experience of Agriculture in any other Part of the Country? I have not, …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. Richard Mackenzie Bacon Esq. is called in, and examined as follows: Have you turned your Attention to … they will interchange their Labour; but if Labourers in Agriculture produce a certain Number of Children, there will … be assumed perhaps, to a certain Degree, as a Fact, that Agriculture has not given that Remuneration to the Employment …
Journal of the House of Lords
… the Chair. The Reverend Stephen Demainbray is called in, and further examined as follows: Have you, according to the … Parish? I have prepared a Return of the Number of Days, and Parts of Days, employed by the poor Men in the … of an Acre of Land, according to the nature of the Soil and the different Kinds of Crops, calculated on an Average in …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Salisbury in the Chair. John Grey Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: Where do you reside? At Milfield … them constantly under my Eye, both as an Occupier of Land and as a Magistrate. Are you acquainted with the State of … any Power to try the Experiment, and were I interested in Agriculture, I would do it, if it were only upon One Rood of …
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… with reference to one particular Part of the Law and the Practice of the Law. Has that reference to a … the Effect of lowering the Condition of the Labourers, and lessening the natural Value of their Labour; besides … of the most important Improvements which can be made in Agriculture, and that the System of Mr. Elkington is one of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Salisbury in the Chair. Edward Simeon Esq. is called in, and examined as follows: You reside at Whitchurch, in … Houses, and other Descriptions of Property, independent of Agriculture? Yes; a good many. I happen to live in the Valley … is not conducted on the same Principles on which Horticulture is conducted, I am led to infer that there might …