England And the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social ...
England And the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social ...
Sydney, William Connor
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The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf ; O'er the young shoot the chariock throws a shade. And clasping tares cling round the sickly blade. The wages of the outdoor agricultural labour varied m different localities of the county from 4f. to 8j. a week, without food.^ He ate very little beyond rye bread, and stony cheese * too hard to bite,' as Robert Bloomfield described it, for which that county was then famed. Woollen clothing and linen, being very expensive, were entirely beyond the reach of ...his purse. Tea, sugar, coffee, and the various little luxuries in * See the Rev. J. Howlett's pamphlet on Tke Causes of the Increase of the Poor, 1788, p. 6j ; see also the Enquiry into the Influence which Enclosures have had upon the Population of this Kingdom (1786), by the same divine. { Digitized by VjOOQIC 262 ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (which the modem cottager is able to indulge, he never saw, much less tasted. One half of the rural population ate meat twice a- week, the remaining half went entirely without it.
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