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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... farmers , and farm- . labourers . Every freeman was , in theory , his own landlord , his own farmer , and his own labourer , though we can hardly doubt that a simple form of co - operative agriculture had already been invented under the ...
... farmers , and farm- . labourers . Every freeman was , in theory , his own landlord , his own farmer , and his own labourer , though we can hardly doubt that a simple form of co - operative agriculture had already been invented under the ...
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... farmers paid rent in money , some in kind , some in agricultural services ; but their rents were fixed , and their ... farmer holding under an ordinary lease , even though not embodied in a deed , acquired a right of property which could ...
... farmers paid rent in money , some in kind , some in agricultural services ; but their rents were fixed , and their ... farmer holding under an ordinary lease , even though not embodied in a deed , acquired a right of property which could ...
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... farmers to kill off a great part of their flocks at the end of the autumn . Low as the price of mutton was , sheep- farming was found to be very profitable , and for this reason was generally retained in the lord's own hands . Though a ...
... farmers to kill off a great part of their flocks at the end of the autumn . Low as the price of mutton was , sheep- farming was found to be very profitable , and for this reason was generally retained in the lord's own hands . Though a ...
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... farmers of their demesnes to refrain from the abandonment of their farms . For a time cultivation became impossible . The sheep and cattle strayed through the fields and corn , says a con- temporary , and there were none left who could ...
... farmers of their demesnes to refrain from the abandonment of their farms . For a time cultivation became impossible . The sheep and cattle strayed through the fields and corn , says a con- temporary , and there were none left who could ...
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... farmers holding their lands on lease . Never , perhaps , was the land- scape of England so picturesque as it must ... farming their own lands were still thickly scattered over the country . It is a memorable remark of Philip de Comines ...
... farmers holding their lands on lease . Never , perhaps , was the land- scape of England so picturesque as it must ... farming their own lands were still thickly scattered over the country . It is a memorable remark of Philip de Comines ...
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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.