THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE., 



, Carriages, Dress, or any 



iple of Custom-duties a 

 fair contingent upon 

 rough the Custom House 



with consumption — was 



both sides' as a ' Fixed- 

 f Party strife, on either 

 hade of opinion less in- 

 during the acute stage 



(,'ai'h u. should betake 



■ 



\\v Agricultural Interest would be 

 re notice trumpet-tongued to the Capi- 

 ,ve nothing to do with Agriculture. The 



i a duty framed with the avowed object 

 of the article, raised up a 



■■nt lever upon it, even for the 



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ttoi that we wot 

 bone into the deceptive stream 



: la to regulate t 



look, from the earliest times 



i 

 g the period when England was an 



- ■ 







, 2.(1163.) Im 



portation prohibited when 



. 











known by proclamation. 



•■■'. '". • ' ''.'.-." ' ' 



kJ 5 ^ ^'- 



) No renting Farmer to 







kept in Tillage in every 

 accession of Hen. VIII 





.,-.-.. 





■ ■ ■ ' : ' • • ■ i 



"thrpurp^e^L^/in^fl 





( U arter 8 b o r f 0k a e „ r y 



and they must not have 

















corn bought. Whoever 







^ I., e. It. (i,i 



to'L^Si^For 







soned during the King's 



of forfeiting double the 



under penalty 



and Mary, e. 



5. (15S4. - ) Exportation 



T^qu^rTer! * 



ot above 6.v.8rf., Rye 4s., 





1 Jac. I., c. 25. (1603-4.) Importation of WW, 

 prohibited when it was under 26s. 8</. per quarter. 



21 Jac. I.,c. 28. (Ib23.) Buying com to wli iru 

 prohibited when Wheat was at or above 32* ?*, 

 quarter, and other corn in proportion. Exportation to 

 cease on royal proclamation. 



12 Car. II., c. 4. (1660.) Wheat under 44*. per 

 quarter, export duty to be 5*. Gd. per quarter ; ibere 

 44s., duty 6s. Sd. Exportation to be free whit the 



15 Car. II., c. 4*'(1663.) When Wheat did cot «- 

 ceed 48s. per quarter, export duty to be 5i. id. per 

 quarter, and persons might buy corn to sell again (if 

 not sold within three months of er the buying) and keep 



^standing." 



22 Car. II., c. 13. (1670.) Exportation pemHW 

 when Wheat was under 53s. Ad. per quarter. Poond- 



lation was increasing rapidly, and England became*! 

 an importer of Corn. For about a century lb* 

 Statute-book presents a state of utter bewildertaeat 

 between Exportation and Importation, endeavouring 

 to regulate one and the other by the most in«t- 

 gruous mixture of duties and ' bounties' tr- A ' 

 succeeding each other with a rapidity proporiWMte 



Cycle having began 



■ 

 .eriod ' in 



an Epitome of thii 



ext; following it 

 3 passed after the 1 



i. Of all that can be said I 



ri • -■ • ' 



at the same time supplying the best can- 



mentary upon its pred< 



PROSPECTS OF FARMING.-No. V. 

 The prospect farmers have in future of ^jf 

 pendent in their farming upon prices that are not «**<. 

 to be higher than they were 78 years ago, wb«at» 

 rents of their farms were only about two-thirds of «tet 

 they are now paying for them, may ^*j£^g 

 of their farms and to the advantages they BoW J*!' 

 that they had not then to assist them in more cbttW 

 cultivating their laud. By reminding them w w» 

 altered position in these respects I ^J ^^ 



tnfM ™ioK* ^ 



CT refuly«^ 



Sir S3§SiSfe 



3Jrf. ; butter, 6A«\ ; bread, lid. If readmit rem, 

 and tithe, of the present day to he J° t £* *&<#*? 



