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A Short History of English Agriculture

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[205] Booke of Husbandry (ed. 1568), fol. 5. The surveyor of Fitzherbert's day combined some of the duties of the modern bailiff and land agent: he bought and sold for his employer, valued his property, and supervised the rents.

[206] Booke of Husbandry (ed. 1568), fol. vi.

[207] Ibid. fol. xv.

[208] Booke of Husbandry (ed. 1568), fol. xxix.

[209] Fitzherbert adds pigs and all manner of cornes, so altogether the farmer's wife seems to have done as much as the farmer.

[210] Sir Jas. E. Smith, English Flora, iv. 241.

[211] History of Kent (ed. 1778), i. 123.

[212] Description of Britain (Furnivall ed.), p. 325.

[213] Thorold Rogers, History of Agriculture and Prices, iii. 254.

[214] See above.

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