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A History of the County of Oxford
… was spent on materials to employ the workhouse poor, whose labour yielded the substantial sum of 56. 66 A contract of 1811 forbade immoderate labour or corporal punishment, and provided the master with …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and 102 boonworks at harvest were worked; in addition, labour-services for threshing were provided by Tidenham … the neglect of a later tenant and in 1873, to overcome a labour shortage blamed on the proximity of the parish to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… whose sentence of transportation is commuted for hard labour at home, and who are employed in the dockyard, …
The Environs of London
… persons to superintend them, and take an account of their labour. Exclusive of fifty acres leased a few years ago to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… three ½-yardlanders, and five cottars; none of them owed labour service. 86 In the later 16th century the manor … the royalist cause. He was also said to have done manual labour unfitting for a minister. He had been sequestrated by …