Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland: With a View of the Causes and Probable Consequences of EmigrationLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - 223 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... greater facility could he carry on the work of his own farm , -the greater too was his personal safety . Besides this , the tacksmen , holding their lands from * the chief at a mere quit - rent , were 15.
... greater facility could he carry on the work of his own farm , -the greater too was his personal safety . Besides this , the tacksmen , holding their lands from * the chief at a mere quit - rent , were 15.
Pagina 32
... greater part of their estates into their own possession . Many of the tacksmen have also discarded their superflu- ous cotters and subtenants , and imitate the active industry of the strangers . The success that has hitherto invariably ...
... greater part of their estates into their own possession . Many of the tacksmen have also discarded their superflu- ous cotters and subtenants , and imitate the active industry of the strangers . The success that has hitherto invariably ...
Pagina 33
... greater than a grazier has oc- casion for . The rents that are now to be paid , will not allow the occupier to submit to any unnecessary expense : the families to be main- tained on the ground must , for his own D interest , be reduced ...
... greater than a grazier has oc- casion for . The rents that are now to be paid , will not allow the occupier to submit to any unnecessary expense : the families to be main- tained on the ground must , for his own D interest , be reduced ...
Pagina 42
... greater or less amount of labour to perform as a part of their rent . Frequently they are absolute servants to their immediate superior , having the command only of a small share of their own time to cultivate the land allowed them for ...
... greater or less amount of labour to perform as a part of their rent . Frequently they are absolute servants to their immediate superior , having the command only of a small share of their own time to cultivate the land allowed them for ...
Pagina 44
... of the lower class who have the means of living nearly so well as an English labourer , but many who have property of much greater value . In the Agricultural Survey of the Northern Counties , details are given of the œconomy of a 44.
... of the lower class who have the means of living nearly so well as an English labourer , but many who have property of much greater value . In the Agricultural Survey of the Northern Counties , details are given of the œconomy of a 44.
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Pagina xix - All their household stuff, which is very little worth, though it might well abide the sale: yet being suddenly thrust out, they be constrained to sell it for a thing of nought. And when they have wandered...
Pagina xiv - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen ; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
Pagina xviii - I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Pagina xiv - That all houses of husbandry, that were used with twenty acres of ground and upwards, should be maintained and kept up for ever; together with a competent proportion of land to be used and occupied with them...
Pagina xviii - ... fraud, or by violent oppression they be put besides it, or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied, that they be compelled to sell all...
Pagina xviii - They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities. For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men...
Pagina v - Wherever we roved, we were pleased to see the reverence with which his subjects regarded him. He did not endeavour to dazzle them by any magnificence of dress : his only distinction was a feather in his bonnet ; but as soon as he appeared, they forsook their work and clustered about him : he took them by the hand, and they seemed mutually delighted.
Pagina xviii - ... all into pastures : they throw down houses : they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse.
Pagina xix - ... woeful mothers with their young babes, and their whole household small in substance and much in number as husbandry requireth many hands. Away they trudge, I say, out of their known and accustomed houses, finding no place to rest in.
Pagina xiv - The king likewise knew full well, and in no wise forgot, that there ensued withal upon this a decay and diminution of subsidies and taxes ; for the more gentlemen, ever the lower books of subsidies.