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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... capital and labour . " In spite of a Royal Ordinance for- bidding peasants to go about begging in idleness , and requiring such persons to work at the rate of wages current before the Plague , labourers exacted a famine price for their ...
... capital and labour . " In spite of a Royal Ordinance for- bidding peasants to go about begging in idleness , and requiring such persons to work at the rate of wages current before the Plague , labourers exacted a famine price for their ...
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... capital fee , " held by military tenure ; and , so late as the reign of Henry III . , socage fees , the relic of the old 3 1 It is said that in the wills of great nobles before the Conquest some preference for eldest sons was manifested ...
... capital fee , " held by military tenure ; and , so late as the reign of Henry III . , socage fees , the relic of the old 3 1 It is said that in the wills of great nobles before the Conquest some preference for eldest sons was manifested ...
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... for exportation . The growth of a new plutocracy on the ruins of the old English nobility largely increased the application of capital to LAND TENURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . 25 land , 24 ENGLISH LAND AND ENGLISH LANDLORDS .
... for exportation . The growth of a new plutocracy on the ruins of the old English nobility largely increased the application of capital to LAND TENURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . 25 land , 24 ENGLISH LAND AND ENGLISH LANDLORDS .
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... capital was extremely scarce , and , though land did not command a fancy price , there were very few who could afford either to buy or to stock a large arable farm . The hereditary owners of large estates were attracted to London by the ...
... capital was extremely scarce , and , though land did not command a fancy price , there were very few who could afford either to buy or to stock a large arable farm . The hereditary owners of large estates were attracted to London by the ...
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... capital , and the repetition of statutes against the exportation of wool shows at least that it commanded what the Legislature thought an excessive price in the home market . Yet even in the middle of the seven- teenth century ...
... capital , and the repetition of statutes against the exportation of wool shows at least that it commanded what the Legislature thought an excessive price in the home market . Yet even in the middle of the seven- teenth century ...
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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.