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The rent is eighteen-pence a week probably the lowest-rented manor-house in England, though it is not very rare to find such places tenanted by labourers. But let us look at the true cottages. There are, I imagine, few places in England where the humble homes of the people have so great a charm.
Separatist speakers invariably use the term as denoting an excessive rent, an impossible rent a rent, which is, as it were, extorted by means of the Rack. The term is purely legal, and denotes a rent paid by ALL yearly tenants, whether their rent, as a whole, be high or low. The lowest-rented yearly tenant in the country is paying Rack-rent.
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