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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… frock [waggoner's frock] A coarse over-garment worn by agricultural labourers and probably identical with, or similar to, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the sums involved such men must have paid their own labourers though of course it is impossible to tell whether the latter received more or less than such labourers as worked for the employers direct. The first six … week. 'Layers' began work on the walls 1116 June, and labourers are first mentioned the following week, when 22 …
A History of the County of Essex
… as a musician. 38 Between 1841 and 1891 farmers and their labourers made up c. 60 per cent of the working population; …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 76 In the mid 19th century many parishioners worked as labourers for the seven or eight landowners, of whom the most … and a stud farm on the Avisford House estate, much of its agricultural land was in hand. 85 Most farms in the early … 1830 the occupiers of land agreed to employ all the parish labourers in numbers proportionate to their land-tax …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… has been added to the building by Lord Braybrooke, for an agricultural society. Lord Howard de Walden takes the title …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… by persons engaged in the mines and in weaving, and by agricultural labourers, and artisans in various handicraft trades: the … and the horses, of which more are kept than are used for agricultural purposes, are of the Clydesdale breed. The farm …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 85 acres of land, of which 43 are let in single acres to labourers, at a nominal rent. Walpole (St. Peter) WALPOLE ( …
A History of the County of Stafford
… church. 10 From at least 1763 it was sent to Freeford for agricultural use. 11 In the earlier 19th century the Barr … castings for the electrical, engineering, shipbuilding, agricultural, textile, and other trades. 41 Such variety … rope, cordage, and canvas products for the saddlery and agricultural trades. 78 Rope-walks were subsequently set up …