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The Entail Debate and the Plight of Agricultural Labour
James Beal argues that entail depresses rural wages and slows improvement of the agricultural class. He traces laborer misery from medieval serfdom to modern pauperism, condemns landlord power, and calls for free trade in land and legislative reform to open land to competition and raise living conditions.
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Archaeologia
Acre
Henry II
John
Henry
Yeomanry
England
Poor-law Commissioners
Ife
France
Morning Chronicle
Times
Goldsmith
James Beal