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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… towards 'the internal defence of the kingdom'. 71 In the famine year 1795 the capital burgesses combined with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Mercury, 12 Aug. 1795, p. 2; R. Wells, Wretched Faces: Famine in Wartime Eng. 17631803 (1988), 110, 180, 432; PRO, …
The Environs of London
… of Lancaster being visited with sword, pestilence, and famine, all at once afflicting that county above other parts …