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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… daily offer'd etc and which is more servants and poor labourers inveigled, seduced, wheedeld to expend their money …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… and many quarrels have happened; the youth and other poor labourers are in danger of being utterly undon. And whereas …
A History of the County of Essex
… and most of the rest of the population were cottagers and labourers. 78 In 1839 the largest landowner was J. J. Tufnell … 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 …