On his estate, rents were collected, a grace period given if needed, but no other exactions were demanded. |
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Until about 1825 a long slight inflation had kept peasant incomes abreast of the increasing exactions of the official and sub-official classes. |
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Apart from demanding an increase in wages, they demanded that the military stop collecting illegal exactions from the truck drivers at the gates. |
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He was a man of violent temper and sarcastic tongue, a strict disciplinarian, and ruthless in his exactions. |
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In March 1340 he travelled to London on community business, to show proof to the city authorities that Lynn burgesses were exempt from murage exactions there. |
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After taxes, and other exactions including, in many cases, rent, the peasantry had not enough left to rear sufficient children to counterbalance the high death rate. |
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Collected under direct military pressure, these allowed exactions of money and payments in kind at considerably higher rates than any civil system permitted. |
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Rising tax exactions invariably dampened the spirits of charity. |
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By early 1282, many of the lesser princes who had supported Edward against Llywelyn in 1277 were becoming disillusioned with the exactions of the royal officers. |
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