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A Short History of English Agriculture

Note 533 — Chapter XVII

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Tooke, i. 319, and Pamphleteer, vi. 200 (A. Young). Since 1770, says the latter, labour by 1810-11 had doubled, but meat had risen 146 per cent., cheese 153 per cent., bread 100 per cent. Wages therefore had not risen in proportion to prices.

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