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... tenants and sub - tenants , broadening out in the lower strata of the social scale to the occupiers of what came to be known as the penny , halfpenny and farthing lands , among whom the country was divided and sub - divided . Each of ...
... tenants and sub - tenants , broadening out in the lower strata of the social scale to the occupiers of what came to be known as the penny , halfpenny and farthing lands , among whom the country was divided and sub - divided . Each of ...
Page 190
... tenants and sub - tenants occupying their land with no fixity of tenure under a tacksman , often a relation of the chieftain from whom he held the land at a low or nominal rent . It was a system which had little to commend it , either ...
... tenants and sub - tenants occupying their land with no fixity of tenure under a tacksman , often a relation of the chieftain from whom he held the land at a low or nominal rent . It was a system which had little to commend it , either ...
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... tenants was a gradual one , and not until sheep farming on a large scale became common in the Highlands were these upland areas put to fuller use than for the grazing of cattle from the sheilings in summer and early autumn . On the ...
... tenants was a gradual one , and not until sheep farming on a large scale became common in the Highlands were these upland areas put to fuller use than for the grazing of cattle from the sheilings in summer and early autumn . On the ...
Contents
The Early Drovers | 6 |
The Life and Work of a Drover | 20 |
The Economics of Droving | 45 |
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