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Journal of the House of Lords
… I am, and also Wiltshire and Devonshire; but I act but little in Devonshire. Will you have the goodness to state … the Afternoon. Of course, being my own Land, I gave them a little Remuneration of my own: but this was what they bond … employed? By no means. I found among the idle Labourers a little shifting, if I may use that Expression; but good …
Journal of the House of Lords
… action. Will you have the goodness to explain that Idea a little more fully? I mean that you will not increase the … not employed would be very small, and there would be very little Necessity for having recourse to Spade Labour. Do you … not be equally productive if Labourers were put, with the little Knowledge they have of Cultivation, upon it; but Land …
Journal of the House of Lords
… sell it for what it costs me; it costs me nothing but the little Trouble that attends it. Is it the Practice of your … That was established by Sir George Young's Sister, a little Girl, who, when she left the Country, turned it over … I can give no Reason except that I believe it wants a little Firmness and a little continued Exertion; and what is …
Journal of the House of Lords
… repay it when their Wages are higher? We do to some of the little Tradesmen, whose Trade is sometimes at a stand-still … generally is to get through their Time of Service with as little Trouble and as little Expence to the Parish as possible. Have those …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Costs have been considerable upon those; but very little of the Rate has gone towards the actual Labour of … to drink? Water. They have no Cheese? No. No Tea? Very little. I have watched One and twenty Men dine together; I … of them eat Bread with what we call Seam, which is a little Fat rendered down. No Potatoes? No. [10] Where did you …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Churchwardens was, that if a poor Man was distressed, his little Property was soon appropriated, and from the Nature of … of a Portion of the Wages from the Poor's Rate, made the little Cottager in a worse Situation absolutely than the … every thing was calculated to cut down the poor Man's little Property; I kept it in this Way to prevent the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… smoke a Pipe, do not continue the full Time, and do very little Work. What do they give in your District for … by Persons who have not had Land, and they will invent a little Tale to make me suppose that a Plot will be vacant, … of October, when the Wheat Sowing is over, there is very little absolutely necessary Labour for the poor People, with …
Journal of the House of Lords
… affirmed to exceed 360,000 Persons. On the other hand, little or no Increase of Tillage seems to have taken place … a very severe Scarcity. If I am right in supposing that little or no Increase of Cultivation has taken place since …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Page of Evidence in Printed Report. A. Abington, Great and Little, Acreage of, Population, Poor Rates, &c. Pym, 408. … Acreage of Abington, Great, Pym, 408. 409. - of Abington, Little, Pym, 408. 409. - of Abington Pigotts, Pym, 398. 399. … 406. 407. - of Eversden, Pym, 406. 407. - of Eversden, Little, Pym, 406. 407. - of Farnhurst, Cameron, 130. Acreage …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… as the lease, we are told, has expired, and the room is of little use, we trust that Messrs. Stanborough & Graves will … are modern erections of the 17th century. Of the nave very little remains; but judging from the beautiful doorway, still … to alter the appearance of the Church externally as little as possible, as this building has much that is …