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Journal of the House of Lords
… is to say, if he pays Rent, Tithes, Manure, and Tradesmen's Bills, and if the fair Employment of Labour would add to … to emigrate-" compel Parishes, where the Amount of Poor's Rate paid to able-bodied Labourers exceeds per Annum, to … of such unemployed Labourers, on the Security of the Poor's Rates; and Parishes to borrow from the Government on such …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Wheat. Potatoes per Acres. Wheat per Acre. A. R. P. S. B. S. B. S. B. P. S. B. P. William Tarrant had on 0 1 34 3 2 equal to …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Garden free from Rent; he has a Cow kept upon his Master's Farm; he has a certain Quantity of Grain given to him, a … The First Article is Thirty-six Bushels of Oats, 6£. 12 s.; Twentyfour Bushels of Barley, 5£. 12 s.; Twelve Bushels … Garden requires, but the Farmer leads it away to his own Fields. As soon as the Place near the Cowhouse is filled with …
Journal of the House of Lords
… they pay the Rents of ablebodied Persons out of the Poor's Rate; secondly, an Allowance for the Children (I am always … Persons); thirdly, making up the Wages out of the Poor's Rate. This System was adopted in several of the Southern … Employment or Relief of able-bodied Persons from the Poor's Rate, to which I beg leave to refer; that Report was in …
Journal of the House of Lords
… prohibits the Overseer from employing any Part of the Poor's Rate in the Payment of Labour; this is a proper Provision, … employ this Labour shall forfeit any Sum not exceeding 2 s. a Day for each Labourer; and what is to become of this Sum … from Birds and Vermin than it can possibly be in large Fields. You conceive that a Quarter of Wheat is more than …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Rates which were collected last Year in that Parish? 1 s. 6 d. in the Pound. On what Valuation? On the Valuation of 1. an Acre to the Arable Land, 40 s. an Acre to the Meadow Land, and 5 s. an Acre for the Great … the Farmers have given the People the Headlands of their Fields to plant Potatoes. Have they extended to a Quarter of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… the same, which is read. ( See Appendix (A.) to this Day's Evidence.) Were the Magistrates in Cambridgeshire well … upon the Parish, and the Rates were reduced from 212£. 16 s. the Amount of Poor Rates for the Half Year ending April 5, 1801, to 12£. 6 s. for the Half Year ending April 5, 1804, of which only 4£. …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Wages they receive when so employed by the Parish? 8 s. per Week the married Men, with Families; a single Man, until this last Week, 3 s., 3 s. 6 d., and possibly 4 s. Are they employed by the Grate …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in Quarter and Half Acres. At what Rents? At a Rent of 50 s. per Acre, which was the Rent the Farmer paid. How long … Man would have different Wages: I should say, from 4 s. to 6 s., and in some Cases 7 s. Is there any further … a Place of Punishment; a House kept in Saint George's Fields for a great many dissolute Characters of London and …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Extent laid down in permanent Pasture; and even those Fields which continue in Tillage are certainly less carefully …