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The village labourer, 1760-1832

Note 302 — Chapter VII · THE REMEDIES OF 1795

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On the same day a ‘respectable meeting’ at Basingstoke, with the Mayor in the chair, was advocating the fixing of labourers’ wages in accordance with the price of wheat without any reference to parish relief.—Reading Mercury, May 11, 1795.

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