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... labourers . Joseph Massie in 1760 thought the farming community was composed of about 150,000 families of farmers , 200,000 of " husbandmen " and 200,000 of " coun- try " labourers as distinct from London ones ( which does not neces ...
... labourers . Joseph Massie in 1760 thought the farming community was composed of about 150,000 families of farmers , 200,000 of " husbandmen " and 200,000 of " coun- try " labourers as distinct from London ones ( which does not neces ...
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... labourers had launched a threatening demonstra- tion , he agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration- " which " ( wrote The Times ) " satisfied the labourers " . At Haddiscoe , the Rev. Thomas Elliston was besieged in the Crown Inn ...
... labourers had launched a threatening demonstra- tion , he agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration- " which " ( wrote The Times ) " satisfied the labourers " . At Haddiscoe , the Rev. Thomas Elliston was besieged in the Crown Inn ...
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... labourers " , 16 In Suffolk , the labourers ' movement began on the last day of November . That same morning , the Duke of Grafton , the Lord Lieutenant , sent Lord Melbourne a report . He noted the absence of riots in the western part ...
... labourers " , 16 In Suffolk , the labourers ' movement began on the last day of November . That same morning , the Duke of Grafton , the Lord Lieutenant , sent Lord Melbourne a report . He noted the absence of riots in the western part ...
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1830 Place County 19th century 22 November 30 November agitation agricultural Andover appears arson Bedfordshire Berks Berkshire border Bucks Cambridgeshire Cambs Captain Swing cent centre convicted craftsmen Date 1830 Place December demand destroyed Devizes district Dorset East Anglia East Kent East Sussex enclosure England Essex farm farm-labourers Farmers Farmers Farmers Farmers Parsons fires Fordingbridge gentry Glos Hampshire Hants Hartismere higher wages Hobart Horsham Hungerford Hunts incendiary January John justices Kintbury labourers land landlords Large Farmer later letter Lincs London Lord machine-breaking machinery magistrates Maidstone March movement neighbouring Norfolk North Northants Norwich October organised outbreak overseers Oxon paper parishes Parl Parsons Farmers political Poor Law prisoners Radical rents reported rioters riotous rising rural Salisbury sentenced social society Somerset South spread stacks Suffolk Surrey Th/Ms Thatcham threshing machines tithes town Type of Disturbance unrest village wages meetings wages riots Wales West Wilts Wiltshire