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Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 7: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793); Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records; 1703-1793, Part II
The entries printed in the second part of this volume are of a different character from those contained in the first. The first table is a collection of miscellaneous prices that could not properly be included under any other head, and of scraps of information found among the papers at Brandsby Hall and Castle Howard. Some of the entries are remarkable. The very modest prices paid for the keep of the racehorse, and for the services of the jockey, form a startling contrast to the fee paid for teaching Mr. Mitford the not very difficult art of shaving. Nor can the school fees at Douay be con sidered high; fencing and dancing seem the only sub jects taught, and a considerable proportion of the total is spent on amusements. The year 1 782 was one of agricultural depression, and it is the only occasion on which, so far as I have been able to tell, the rents were reduced or abated. Although the books at Brandsby Hall do not show how much was paid per acre, it is evident that the rents had been very much raised in the previous twenty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
