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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 … in ditching and planting, to prevent their being on the Road. Do you think that that has been beneficial? I am sure …
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 … doing the extra Work of the District, such as draining and road-making, who are not included in the Class of Servants I …
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 … the Exchange - to straighten a Watercourse, to alter a Road, or exchange a Field. If a Power could be given, under …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Four Children? [358] I should think he would get about 11 s. in all; but it would depend upon the Price of Bread. … earn from their Masters, but to take the Wages at 9 s. or 10 s. all round, and then add as much as they would in … Men out of Employment, who were working upon the Road at the Rate of 3 s. 6 d. per Week. Are there any …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Halfpenny a Pole; that amounted, I think, to about 33 s. To whom did he pay that? [432] The Occupiers paid him 12 s. an Acre for the cultivating it by Spade Husbandry; he paid … Land. The Amount of digging that Land came to about 33 s. an Acre, about 20 s. an Acre more than he received from …
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 … that in some Parts of the Country Men are employed by the Road Surveyors to draw Stones upon the Roads, and that they …
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 Tithe. The Land lets from 30 s. to …
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, … Yes; at higher Rents. Yes; 70 Acres, in Allotments from 1 Road to 1 Acre each. 4A. 23P. of Townland, the Profits of …
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 … You stated that many of the Men are employed on the Road in some of the Parishes in your Neighbourhood? There …
Journal of the House of Lords
… the Payment of a Portion of the Wages from the Poor's Rate, made the little Cottager in a worse Situation … every thing was calculated to cut down the poor Man's little Property; I kept it in this Way to prevent the … obtaining Manure they have? If they can get what we call Road Scrapings, it is extremely valuable. The former Tenant …