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Journal of the House of Lords
… Affairs of the East India Company Minutes of evidence: 4 June 1830 Die Veneris, 4 Junii 1830. [509] The … it amounted to 19,200 lbs; and I find from the American Returns of Exports and Imports for the Year 1827, that the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Affairs of the East India Company Minutes of evidence: 8 June 1830 Die Martis, 8 Junii 1830. [523] The … shew that accurately. By far the largest Portion of those Returns are made in Dollars' are they not? At Bombay there is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Affpuddle AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN SOUTH-EAST DORSET … heading are the National Grid reference to the position of the parish church. The map sheets covering the parish are … references; where these do not occur, then the position of the monument is either shown on a village or parish map …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… AFTER THE SUPPRESSION 15401553. The Augustinian priory of St. Bartholomew, West Smithfield, being now suppressed, it … Rich, and the other possessions to various people desirous of acquiring monastic lands. The first few years after the suppression of the monasteries must have been a period of great pressure …
Old and New London
… CHAPTER XXVIII. AGAR TOWN, AND THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. Origin of the Midland RailwayAgar Town as it wasA Good ClearanceUnderground Operations for the Construction of the Midland Railway and TerminusRe-interment of a Roman Catholic DignitaryThe Midland RailwayMr. William …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Agriculture AGRICULTURE The agriculture of Middlesex has always been of special interest, though the … It has been remarked that these cannot very well be exact returns of area because roads and steeps at cross ways are … the finest wheat in the county; the skin is thin, the corn full and bold, and the flower white, or, as the millers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… IN dealing with Oxford from an agricultural point of view it is necessary to treat of the various methods of … an acre. Between forty and fifty years ago, when prices of corn were high and there was apparently no sign of labour … acre; and taking the average yield from the Agricultural Returns for the ten years 18941903, we have 29 bushels an …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1500-1793 AGRICULTURE c. 1500 c. 1793 Sketch map of farming countries In the 16th century Wiltshire, excluding enclaves, comprehended parts of various farming regions. In the north was the Cheese … Wiltshire formed the centre of a great region of sheep-and-corn husbandry. In the extreme north-west there was a fringe …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… c. 1870 In 1794 T. Davis wrote: 'The agricultural pursuits of the inhabitants of every county or district are directed, … disappeared; the capitalist winter dairyman and the corn and sheep farmer, dependent upon cash sales and … It was for the northern parishes that the census returns showed increases after inclosure. Even there, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… along with it, has experienced severe fluctuations of fortune. 1 In general the causes of these fluctuations … rate, even the technically efficient farmers of the large corn and sheep farms were in an economically weak position in … farming had advanced so far along the path of diminishing returns that their profit margins were uneconomic when …