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Journal of the House of Lords
… than usual; do you mean to say, that the Occupiers have become poorer of late Years than they were formerly? …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Paupers whom you propose to place on the Waste Lands will become small Farmers? Yes. Do you consider that a small … believe, that after a certain Time those small Farms would become as effectually productive as any Land now under …
Journal of the House of Lords
… at the same Time that the Condition of the Farmers has become worse; how do you account for the improved Condition …
Journal of the House of Lords
… was; and I have frequently seen, when a Property had become free from Tithe, by the Proprietor being enabled to … exhaust the Land in Two or Three Years, and it would become in a bad State; but by having a simple Plan laid down, …
Journal of the House of Lords
… to keep Servants in their own Houses? I think that has become a little more the Case lately. It was formerly … if they are guilty of any Offence for which they shall become liable to Fine or Imprisonment; and I am happy to say … Enactment, to do that which I urge, I think it would become essentially necessary to alter the Law of Settlement, …
Journal of the House of Lords
… not exceeding 2 s. a Day for each Labourer; and what is to become of this Sum so forfeited; it is to go in aid of the … that the Settlers (if I may use the Expression) should not become chargeable upon the Parishes into which they are … pressed very heavily, it was resorted to, but it did not become a general Practice, I think, 'till after the general …
Journal of the House of Lords
… it not, in proportion to the Profits they thereby receive, become less necessary that the Poor should be obliged to …
Journal of the House of Lords
… repeal the Bastardy Laws? Yes. Would not the Bastards then become Objects of Relief, as occasional Poor? Perhaps they … besides working for his Employers, it would by degrees become a Succedaneum for the Poor Rate? I think if they … increased, and the Character and Habits of the Poor have become generally demoralized. They are convinced, however, …
Journal of the House of Lords
… called bad Characters, by having Plenty of Work, would become as good as any others, and I am happy to say that has … for mutual Benefit, I know very well these Parishes will become absolutely insolvent. You say that the Labourers have …