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" It is greatly to be lamented, that good servants every year become more scarce and difficult to be found. The best domestics used to be found among the sons and daughters of little farmers ; they were brought up in good principles, and in habits of industry... "
A review of the reports to the Board of agriculture - Page 83
by William Humphrey Marshall - 1817
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General View of the Agriculture of Berkshire

1813 - 636 pages
...higher wages : and gentlemen's domestics frequently have salaries far beyond the services they perform. It is greatly to be lamented, that good servants every...of industry ; but since that valuable order of men lias been so generally reduced in every county, and almost annihilated in some, servants are of necessity...
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Common-place Book

Robert Southey - 1849 - 650 pages
...—MAVOB'S Survey of Berkshire, p. 839. Good Servants becoming scarce, as Small Farms have disappeared, " IT is greatly to be lamented, that good servants every...found. The best domestics used to be found among the song and daughters of little farmers; they were brought up in good principles, and in habits of industry;...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

Robert Southey - 1849 - 610 pages
...MAYOR'S Surcey of Berhshire, p. 339. Good Servants becoming scarce, as Small Farms hace disappeared. " IT is greatly to be lamented, that good servants every...become more scarce and difficult to be found. The best domes196 197 ties used to be found among the sons and daughters of little farmers; they were brought...
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Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England

Ann Kussmaul - 1981 - 256 pages
...1808, suggested that enclosure and consolidation further eroded the institution of service because good servants every year become more scarce and difficult...industry; but since that valuable order of men has been so greatly reduced in every county, and almost annihilated in some, servants are of necessity taken from...
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A Millennium of Family Change: Feudalism to Capitalism in Northwestern Europe

Wally Seccombe - 1992 - 364 pages
...was out of the question'.266 Farmers complained that sources of respectable servants had dried up: 'The best domestics used to be found among the sons and daughters of little farmers; . . . but since that valuable order of men has been so greatly reduced . . . servants are of necessity...
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