The famines of the world: past and present. 2 papers read before the Statistical soc. of London, and repr. from its Journal

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Page 66 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 156 - An Act to repeal the several Acts now in force relating to Bread to be sold out of the City of London and the Liberties thereof and beyond the Weekly Bills of Mortality and Ten Miles of the Royal Exchange ; and to provide other Regulations for the Making and Sale of Bread, and for preventing the Adulteration of Meal, Flour, and Bread, beyond the Limits aforesaid.
Page 118 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 117 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter...
Page 168 - An Act for the encouraging the importation of Naval " Stores from Her Majesty's Plantations in America," and the other an Act for granting to Her Majesty " a further Subsidy on Wines and Merchandizes imported ;
Page 250 - A determination of the average depression of the price of wheat in war, below that of the preceding peace; and of its readvance in the following; according to its yearly rules, from the Revolution to the end of the last peace ; with remarks on their greater variations in that entire period,
Page 140 - ... and invented ways and means how they might accumulate and gather together into few hands as well great multitude of farms as great plenty of cattle, and in especial sheep, putting such lands as they can get to pasture and not to tillage, whereby they have not only pulled down churches and towns and enhanced the old rates of the possessions of this realm, or else brought it to such excessive fines that no poor...
Page 213 - An Act to continue until the 1st day of January, 1802, so much of an Act made in the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of the reign of his present Majesty as relates to the reducing the duties upon worts or wash brewed or made...
Page 162 - An Acte for continuynge and revivinge of divers Statutes, and for repealinge of some others " — the following regulations came into force — " XXVI. Provided also, and be it further enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that...
Page 142 - The bill of conspiracies of victuallers and craftsmen," which recites : — " Forasmuch as of late divers sellers of victuals, not contented with moderate and reasonable gain, but minded to have and to take for their victuals so much as list them, have conspired and covenanted together to sell their victuals at unreasonable prices ; (2) and likewise artificers...

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