English Land and English Landlords. An Enquiry Into the Origin and Character of the English Land System, with Proposals for Its Reform ...Cobden Club, 1881 - 515 páginas |
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... in preparing the classification of landowners for each county of England and Wales , appended to the third chapter of Part II . I venture to believe that so PREFACE . instructive an analysis of the official returns has PREFACE .
... in preparing the classification of landowners for each county of England and Wales , appended to the third chapter of Part II . I venture to believe that so PREFACE . instructive an analysis of the official returns has PREFACE .
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... Wales ... ... VII . Vested Interests in Settled Estates ... 493 ... ... 494 VIII . Amount of Poor Rate levied in Agricultural Counties in 1852 , 1868 , and 1878 ... IX . Average extent of Land held by Small Proprietors 496 ... 497 X ...
... Wales ... ... VII . Vested Interests in Settled Estates ... 493 ... ... 494 VIII . Amount of Poor Rate levied in Agricultural Counties in 1852 , 1868 , and 1878 ... IX . Average extent of Land held by Small Proprietors 496 ... 497 X ...
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... Wales . The free tenants and higher orders of villeins are the proto- types of the modern tenant - farmer , being more depen- dent on the landlord for protection , though always enjoying fixity of tenure , when they did not hold under ...
... Wales . The free tenants and higher orders of villeins are the proto- types of the modern tenant - farmer , being more depen- dent on the landlord for protection , though always enjoying fixity of tenure , when they did not hold under ...
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... Wales at 39,000,000 , whereas it is really 37,319,221 acres . Sir William Petty , in his " Political Arithmetic , " reckoned the whole area of England and Wales , together with the lowlands of Scotland , at no more than 36,000,000 acres ...
... Wales at 39,000,000 , whereas it is really 37,319,221 acres . Sir William Petty , in his " Political Arithmetic , " reckoned the whole area of England and Wales , together with the lowlands of Scotland , at no more than 36,000,000 acres ...
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... Wales fed on the agricultural produce of home growth at about 18,000,000 . Since this number is maintained by an acreage less than one - third greater than that which is supposed to have maintained 5,250,000 in the seventeenth century ...
... Wales fed on the agricultural produce of home growth at about 18,000,000 . Since this number is maintained by an acreage less than one - third greater than that which is supposed to have maintained 5,250,000 in the seventeenth century ...
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acreage acres Adam Smith agricultural labourers allotments amount Arthur Young average barley bushels capital cattle cent century charge common corn Corn Laws cost Cottagers crops cultivated custom Cwts districts Domesday Book duty eldest Enclosure England and Wales English Land System entails equal estimated family settlements farm farmers favour fee simple feudal freeholders Greater Yeomen Henry VII holdings houses improvements income increase intestacy landed property landlords landowners leases less Lesser Yeomen limited owner limited ownership Lord Lord Cairns manure meat ment mortgages nearly parish peasant Peers period personalty persons Poor Law population possession price of wheat Primogeniture produce profit proportion Public Bodies purchase quarter rates Real Property realised rent rental rural shillings Small Proprietors soil Squires statute taxation tenant-farmers tenant-in-tail tenant-right tenants tenure tion towns United Kingdom village villeins Vols wages Waste wheat whole younger children
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Página 24 - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen ; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
Página 64 - In families where the estates are kept up from one generation to another, settlements are made every few years for this purpose ; thus in the event of a marriage, a life estate merely is given to the husband ; the wife has an allowance for...
Página 31 - They are also for the most part farmers to gentlemen, or at the leastwise artificers, and with grazing, frequenting of markets, and keeping of servants (not idle servants, as the gentlemen do, but such as get both their own and part of their master's living), do come to great wealth, insomuch that many of them are able and do buy the lands of unthrifty gentlemen...
Página 97 - In Scotland more than one-fifth, perhaps more than one-third part of the whole lands of the country, are at present supposed to be under strict entail.
Página 467 - Living by ; and also to raise weekly or otherwise (by Taxation of every Inhabitant, Parson, Vicar, and other, and of every Occupier of Lands, Houses, Tithes Impropriate, Propriations of Tithes, Coal Mines or saleable Underwoods in the said Parish...
Página 43 - ... upon by the king or lord paramount for aids, whenever his eldest son was to be knighted, or his eldest daughter married ; not to forget the ransom of his own person. The heir, on the death of his ancestor, if of full age, was plundered of the first emoluments arising from his inheritance, by way of relief and primer seisin; and if under age, of the whole of his estate during infancy.
Página 83 - With scarcely any exception, the revenue drawn in the form of rent, from the ownership of the soil, has been at least doubled in every part of Great Britain since 1790.
Página 64 - ... father, who is tenant for life, to bar the entail with all the remainders. Dominion is thus again acquired over the property, which dominion is usually exercised in a re-settlement on the next generation ; and thus the property is preserved in the family.