id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 16594 Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) A Short History of English Agriculture .txt text/plain 129888 9160 82 113, says, 'At this time lay all lands in common fields, in one acre and till half an acre of the lord's land, and give his work as rest of the year they were free labourers, tending cattle or sheep on than an acre of land, a good ox three times as much, a good cart-horse numerous proofs of the great value of meadow land at a time when hay sheep at 20s.[110] The wages paid to the labourers for day work were sheep instead of corn, owing to the high price of labour. first quarter of the sixteenth century, said an acre of land rented rents and raised the prices of corn, cattle, wool, and poultry almost years in 1688.[268] In 1729 the price of land was said to be Good meadow land fetched a great price: corn, unsaleable owing to the great crop in England.[429] The year ./cache/16594.txt ./txt/16594.txt