Annals of the British PeasantryS. Sonnenschein & Company, 1895 - 460 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
14th century agricultural amidst Anglo-Saxon authorities became become beggar bread cause century Church cloth Cobbett Commissioners common compulsory corn corn laws cottage court court leet Crofter districts duties economy Eliz employers employment England English English peasant existence fact farm farmers favour feudal funds hands harvest History husbandry impotent poor indoor relief industry interests jurisdiction justice Kett Kett's Rebellion king labour land landlords latter legislation legislature lord manor master means medieval Mousehold Heath outdoor relief overseers parish Parliament parochial pasturage pauper peasant peasantry pennyland period plough poor law poor rate poor relief popular powers recognised regarded rents Royal rural Scotland Scottish Scottish statute seigniorial servants settlement society soil statute book tenants tenure tion tithes trade utilise VIII village villein villeinage wages waste wheat wool workhouse
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Página 88 - ... to do and use therewith his and their own wills, to the pleasure of Almighty God, and to the honour and profit of this realm.
Página 426 - What the State ought to take upon itself to direct by the public wisdom, and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual discretion.
Página 257 - There is scarce a poor man in England of forty years of age, I will venture to say, who has not in some part of his life felt himself most cruelly oppressed by this illcontrived law of settlements.
Página 218 - And if we will be so good-natured as to maintain them without work, they can do no less in return than sing us
Página 275 - That giant-building, that high-bounding wall, Those bare-worn walks, that lofty thund'ring hall ! That large loud clock, which tolls each dreaded hour, Those gates and locks, and all those signs of power : It is a prison, with a milder name, Which few inhabit without dread or shame.
Página 68 - Water poet, similarly laments the wastefulness of those who— Wear a farm in shoe-strings edged with gold, And spangled garters worth a copyhold ; A hose and doublet which a lordship cost; A gaudy cloak, three manors' price almost; A beaver band and feather for the head Priced at the church's tythe, the poor man's bread.
Página 57 - That every man and woman of our realm of England, of what condition he be, free or bond, able in body, and within the age of threescore years, not living in merchandise, nor exercising any craft, nor having of his own whereof he may live, nor proper land, about whose tillage he may himself occupy, and not serving any other, if he in convenient service (his estate considered) be required to serve, he shall be bounden to serve him which so shall him require...
Página 238 - Tis only the transposing the manufacture from Colchester to London, and taking the bread out of the mouths of the poor of Essex to put it into the mouths of the poor of Middlesex.
Página 257 - To remove a man who has committed no misdemeanour from the parish where he chooses to reside, is an evident violation of natural liberty and justice. The common people of England, however, so jealous of their liberty, but like the common people of most other countries, never rightly understanding wherein it consists, have now, for more than a century together, suffered themselves to be exposed to this oppression without...
Página 246 - I think it will be but a very modest computation to say, that of the products of the earth useful to the life of man, ninetenths are the effects of labour...