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The village labourer, 1760-1832

Note 45 — Chapter III · ENCLOSURE (1)

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Cf. also Wraisbury in Bucks, House of Commons Journal, June 17, 1799, where the petitioners against the Bill claimed that they spoke on behalf of ‘by much the greatest Part of the Proprietors of the said Lands and Grounds,’ yet in the enumeration of consents the committee state that the owners of property assessed at £6, 18s. are hostile out of a total value of £295, 14s.

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