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... land qualification was exchanged for a general property qualification , which in its turn was abolished by the Liberals in 1858. The two ecclesiastical measures which excited most dis- cussion under Anne were the Occasional Conformity ...
... land qualification was exchanged for a general property qualification , which in its turn was abolished by the Liberals in 1858. The two ecclesiastical measures which excited most dis- cussion under Anne were the Occasional Conformity ...
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... land ; the increase of wealth had the inevitable result of accumulating landed properties ; the great extension of the woollen trade , combined with the high rate of agricultural wages under Henry VII . , made it the interest of ...
... land ; the increase of wealth had the inevitable result of accumulating landed properties ; the great extension of the woollen trade , combined with the high rate of agricultural wages under Henry VII . , made it the interest of ...
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... land were attached , restraining the number of sheep in a flock , and even regulating the num- ber of acres under tillage ; but this legislation , which had oeen warmly eulogised , and in part originated , by Bacon , was probably ...
... land were attached , restraining the number of sheep in a flock , and even regulating the num- ber of acres under tillage ; but this legislation , which had oeen warmly eulogised , and in part originated , by Bacon , was probably ...
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... land war unless the conjunction be such that nothing less than the weight of Great Britain can pre- vent the scales of power from being quite overturned .'- March- mont Papers , ii . 314 . by the oath and the word of honour of her CH ...
... land war unless the conjunction be such that nothing less than the weight of Great Britain can pre- vent the scales of power from being quite overturned .'- March- mont Papers , ii . 314 . by the oath and the word of honour of her CH ...
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... land , and the dying king , who had once favoured the Bavarian succession , was induced , after many vacillations , to endeavour to save his king- dom from dissolution by bequeathing the whole to the Duke of Anjou ; and how upon the ...
... land , and the dying king , who had once favoured the Bavarian succession , was induced , after many vacillations , to endeavour to save his king- dom from dissolution by bequeathing the whole to the Duke of Anjou ; and how upon the ...
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