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A Short History of English Agriculture

Note 522 — Chapter XVII

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State of the Poor, i. 565 et seq.; Thorold Rogers, Work and Wages, p. 487. It is difficult to calculate the exact income of the labourer; besides extras in harvest, and relief from the parish, he might have a small holding, or common rights, also payments in kind and the earnings of his wife and children.

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