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The total abolition of slavery for themselves and their children forever; 2d. The reduction of the rent of good land to 4d. per acre; 3d. The right of buying and selling, like other men, in markets and fairs; 4th. The pardon of all offences. The monarch acted upon insidious advice; he spoke them fair at first, to gain time, but did not fulfil his promises.
His wife is able and willing to go with him into the field and earn from three to five shillings a week. Then, if he commutes with his employer, he will receive from him 4d. daily, or 2s. a week, for beer-money.
The daughter made match-boxes, and was paid 2 1/4d. for each gross; but out of that generous remuneration she had to buy her own paste and thread. The mother lived over a wash-tub. They all worked, slept, and ate, in the one room, of course, and the man was never outside it for a moment. At the time of my arrival in that house, the daughter had recently taken to her bed.
He had nearly filled his barrow, after trundling it for four miles. He could sell his little load for 4d. to a neighboring farmer; but he intended to keep it for a small garden patch allotted to him by his son, with whom he lived.
Sir Frederic Eden, the historian of the poor-law, adduces many instances in which slaves had been sold thus in 1283, a slave and his family were sold by the Abbey of Dunstable for 13s. 4d. The distinguishing feature of Britain at the present day is, that she is in advance of all the other nations of Europe in uniting order with freedom.
£229,464 8s. 0d. being the amount of grants, and £1,185, 721 5s. 7d. being the amount of loans; besides which there was expended by the Board of Works under various drainage Acts, for the year ending 31st December, 1846, a sum of £110,022 14s. 4d.
But it was the nearest they had yet found, and the highest as well, so that the partners were made the less critical by the contemplation of their splendid dividends. Wicks put in £100, and stood to draw captain's wages for two months; his taking was £333 3s. 6-3/4d. Carthew put in £150; he was to take out £401 18s. 6-1/2d.
Warden, Member of the Council, gave evidence in 1832 that the money-tax levied on Surat cotton was 56 rupees per candy, leaving the grower only 24 rupees, or rather less than 3/4d. per pound.
During this year the Lord was pleased to give me £474, 17s. 7d. To this is again to be added, for this year also, as before stated, the free education of my daughter at a boarding-school, worth at least £50. Dec. 31, 1849. The Lord sent me, during the past year, £413, 2s. 4d. December 5, 1850.
I looked around, and it struck me that the trade of the place mainly consisted in chops and steaks for chance customers at mid-day, and tea and cake for those swarms of women who each afternoon buzz around that long line of windows of the "world's provider." I could see that his was a cheap trade, as revealed by the printed notice stuck upon one of the long fly-blown mirrors: "Ices 4d and 6d."
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