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A History of the County of Somerset
… Courts were held up to three times a year mainly for agricultural and tenancy matters. 25 In 1648 the tenants of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… part of the hundred treated here were predominantly agricultural communities, looking to small markets at …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1855 and 1859 a firm of iron founders, engineers, and agricultural implement makers, Oatley & Morris, later Oatley …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by 28, a library, and other accommodations. Two medical societies have been formed, the first in 1796, and the other, …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… 1742, while holding the See of Norwich, he instituted two societies in Norfolk and Suffolk for the relief and support …
A History of the County of Essex
… whilst the number of farmers fell from 13 to 5 and of agricultural labourers from 113 to 104. 89 A threshing … parish in the 19th century. 96 Membership of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union was strong from 1874 until 1889 … but from 1894 union activity declined. 97 The reduction of agricultural wages in 1919 led to protests, but the farmers' …
A History of the County of Essex
… out of the 30 parishes in Lexden hundred, and 535 in 1851. Agricultural depression from the late 19th cent- ury caused … Hall manor house provided a focus of settlement for the agricultural parish. The other manor houses were Garnons in …