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... labour Services , whether exacted or abolished Commerce Manufactures Manufacture of kelp , its amount , and the number of people employed in it Fisheries Towns and villages Police Inns and ale - houses Roads and bridges Harbours Ferries ...
... labour Services , whether exacted or abolished Commerce Manufactures Manufacture of kelp , its amount , and the number of people employed in it Fisheries Towns and villages Police Inns and ale - houses Roads and bridges Harbours Ferries ...
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... labours , is its great distance from coal , which is found to be the cheapest fewel , though there . are feveral large peat moffes in many parts of the neighbour- hood . The nearest coal to Jedburgh is at Ryechester , diftant about 20 ...
... labours , is its great distance from coal , which is found to be the cheapest fewel , though there . are feveral large peat moffes in many parts of the neighbour- hood . The nearest coal to Jedburgh is at Ryechester , diftant about 20 ...
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... Labour . - The wages of men labourers are is . a day from the ift of March to the 1st of November , and 10d . the rest of the year , except that in time of harvest they are 13d .; and of mowing , 18d . The wages of women are , for ...
... Labour . - The wages of men labourers are is . a day from the ift of March to the 1st of November , and 10d . the rest of the year , except that in time of harvest they are 13d .; and of mowing , 18d . The wages of women are , for ...
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... labour bestowed on them . The greatest part of the parish is thirled to the mill he * When the laird , i . e . lord of the manor , builds a mill , obliges his tenants to have all their corn ground at that mill only . The farms are then ...
... labour bestowed on them . The greatest part of the parish is thirled to the mill he * When the laird , i . e . lord of the manor , builds a mill , obliges his tenants to have all their corn ground at that mill only . The farms are then ...
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... labour ; but in that way they were neither half made , nor half kept in repair . Several years ago , an act of parliament was obtained for this county , converting the fta- tute labour into money , to be paid by the occupiers of land ...
... labour ; but in that way they were neither half made , nor half kept in repair . Several years ago , an act of parliament was obtained for this county , converting the fta- tute labour into money , to be paid by the occupiers of land ...
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