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A History of the County of Oxford
… £2 and £3, but 15 were assessed at the lowest level on labourers' wages. 63 John Chamberlain, who had acquired … was a reduction in the relatively high number of landless labourers observed in the 16th century. It was recalled in … century that Yarnton a century earlier had been without labourers: 'all [were] small renters working their own …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Their condition was blamed on the 'extreme poverty of the labourers' and on the 'apathy of the owner', Sir Henry … in the 19th. By the 19th century it was used to house labourers 13 and was usually held with Hall Farm, Begbroke. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that every farmer should take his 'proper proportion' of labourers out of work, 'being one day for every yardland'; … 35 Ploughs, presumably breastploughs, were bought for labourers in 1795 and 1800, and a labourer's plough was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cheese-making. 82 In 1851 Yelford's two farms employed 12 labourers. 83 After the Lenthalls acquired both farms in 1904 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the house was usually occupied by farm bailiffs and labourers, and in the earlier 20th century was subdivided to …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… appropriated in apprenticing children, and relieving aged labourers not able to work, in both parishes, in equal …