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A History of the County of Somerset
… including Court House with 760 a. The number of recorded labourers was only 36 but some farmers gave no statistical … There were also threshing machine proprietors at Moorland, agricultural machine owners, and an agricultural implement agent. The arable continued to produce …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was inhabited almost exclusively by the Lintons' farm labourers. Few families were long established, most moving … villages, though not predominantly from Oakington, while labourers were drawn from a slightly wider area, successive … renting an adjoining plot, and letting a few cottages to labourers. 34 Gardeners living in Westwick in 1861 and 1871 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… up a row of eight cottages in 1875 to house some of his labourers, replacing earlier dwellings. 37 Apart from the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in 1759, left the interest of 200 to purchase bread for labourers. Chaucer, the poet, had the manor and advowson, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The economy of Wetherley hundred was almost entirely agricultural until the 19th century. The open fields were … depopulation of the countryside after 1870 during the agricultural depression, underwent a considerable expansion …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 17 were also free or customary tenants. There were thus 41 agricultural tenants in all in 1424. 78 By 1591, when the … (later Kidnam's) was 300 a. 11 In 1831 five of the six agricultural occupiers employed labour. 12 The number of … for the importance of clothing trades among non-agricultural occupations there. In 1608 the parish had 7 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… worth £60 in 1806. 17 Most of the land, however, has been agricultural or pastoral throughout the recorded history of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… from time immemorial a sum of 4, under the title of the Labourers' Gift, to be distributed among the poor, which, it …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… including two on the main road, 19 probably the four labourers' cottages equally divided between the two farms in …