The history of English farming from the manorial system to the early twentieth century. This study includes information about: the manorial system of farming; farming for profit; pasture and sheep grazing (1485-1558); farming under the first Stewarts and the commonwealth; Jethro Tull and Lord Townshend (1700-1760); enclosures; English Corn Laws; rural population (1780-1813); tithes; the effects of war and state control plus many other subjects.

Also includes tables of weekly wages (by county) of Ag Labs for various years between 1768 and 1920. This is an essential book for any historians with agricultural labourer ancestors

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