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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… General agricultural depression (Bishop's Cannings 1851), scarcity of agricultural employment (Berwick St. James, … &c.) and maintain (5 s. to 7 s. 6 d. an acre a year); in scarcity conditions they were worth about 3 an acre a year. … difficulty of carting manure up to the hills, 126 and the scarcity of cattle, often made this addition unavailable. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 27 July last. Send a good supply of men. Are sorry for the scarcity that befell the island; suspect want of industry to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… people much distracted, husbandry and trading obstructed, scarcity of bread corn and provisions to be feared if the … made at a time when the Dutch war had occasioned a great scarcity of them, and therefore disowns the instance which is …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… price upon goods except to rise and fall according to the scarcity and plenty. Should pieces-of-eight and the foreign …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… we still suffer from the effects of the drought, and our scarcity is much increased by want of our usual supplies from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… differences, the attacks of the French and Indians and the scarcity of arms and ammunition. I cannot write in full, for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… your Country. What cannot I do?" (11) In a time of great scarcity for provisions, when the inhabitants were ready to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… by the Members of this House, because of the great scarcity of money, and restrained by a Law to the service of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… this country hath to defend, both by sea and land, and the scarcity of free-men, who only are to be trusted on such …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of whatever is taken in execution at an under rate for the scarcity of sugars etc. to purchase it: To remedy this evill …