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Journal of the House of Lords
… in some of those Parishes they declare that that is very little, if at all, more than they were able to earn before. … Land is poor, and the Farms small, and the Tenants have little or no Substance, I believe the Case is very different, … a Fund of 4,000 l. Upon Examination, there was very little Doubt but that the State of the Funds was such, that, …
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… and I saw that [313] Population, which had been a little while before declared to be superabundant, rise up … very large District of light blowing sandy Soil, yielding little, if any, Profit in Cultivation. In other Parts of it, … and that principally in Bones, such Land would produce little or nothing. How much of any other kind of Grain would …
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… last? I should think I can trace some Cottages on Lord Walsingham's Estate, which I have the Management of, that … your Experience of late Years, have you not found that the little Occupiers have been those that have been the earliest … you a Landed Proprietor? I am not. You are Agent for Lord Walsingham? I am. Is there any Waste Land upon his Lordship's …
Journal of the House of Lords
… There are Two or Three Points on which I wish to make some little Additions to my Evidence. The first is with reference … the immediate Want of ready Money. I have also Two other little Observations to make. One is with regard to the … 'till in the latter Part of 1829 its Progress was a little checked by the new System. It is probable it would in …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in procuring so small an Addition to his Capital. To go a little further into Particulars, the Labour of the whole Farm … inclosed since 1797, has been made productive; very little has gone out of Cultivation; and there is the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… that is a very large Parish; but the adjoining Parishes of Little Berkhamstead, Bayford and Hartingford Bury have … and Persons of that Description who get possession of a little Land, and build up a Number of Cottages together. Do … at this Moment give 2 s. a Week for nothing more than a little Lean-to to another House. Supposing those Cottages had …
Journal of the House of Lords
… What is the Rental of the Parish? About 2,500£. a Year; a little more. What Number of Rate Payers are there? One … the Men; but the Mischief is, that there are Five or Six little Farmers in the Parish that cannot pay their Men, and …
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… are occupied in the Care of their Gardens; and having very little Inducement to go away, not having their Wages paid in … to go to a Fair to buy a Pig, and they may drink a little; but their Habits are generally very sober. Do … Cow of his own until he is able to get one, or give him a little Assistance in purchasing it, 'till he is able to work …
Journal of the House of Lords
… them sufficient Assistance to begin; but that after a little while, from Calculations I have made, and which I have … be the most popular, and that it would be an Object, at a little Increase of Expence, to get them to work with us; and … but I am not aware that there was much done, except a little Home Manufacture for their own Use, except in …
Journal of the House of Lords
… the Cottages have been built as Matter of Speculation by little Freeholders. I think the principal Part belong to the great Landholders; but a great many belong to the little Tradesmen. Is there any Practice of excusing those … have; but many have none at all. Those who rent under the little Shopkeepers and Tradesmen that I alluded to before …