The onerous task of distributing seed potatoes to the tenantry on the Sligo estate has just been completed. |
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At the time of the famine, he made valiant efforts to stop his tenantry starving. |
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This transferred more holdings to the tenantry than any previous Land Act had done. |
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He transplanted much of his tenantry to found a dairy farm in 1842, only to return home, ruined, in the following year. |
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He could have made a profit in such an economy, as opposed to looking for a rent increase of 70 per cent from the long suffering tenantry. |
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He raised a fine regiment of foot soldiers from his hardy Cornish tenantry. |
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Most of the tenantry chose to pay the rent rather than face being served with ejectment writs. |
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The onerous task of distributing seed potatoes to the tenantry has just been completed. |
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They actively discouraged emigration, fearing the loss of their workforce and tenantry. |
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The first of these stallions was kept for the benefit of the tenantry, who were granted its use free of charge. |
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The duke's wealth was squeezed from rents and extracted from a starving tenantry. |
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There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry. |
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Some areas of land and estates became more highly colonised by tenantry than others. |
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Except on the Ulster plantations, the tenantry was relatively poor in comparison with that of England and employed inferior agricultural methods. |
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As a gentleman farmer, I must see that the estate is properly managed and that our tenantry is both content and productive. |
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The landlords have never been castigated for ousting their tenantry. |
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In addition to professional retainers a lord could find men amongst his tenantry. |
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It is now in the hands, like Britain itself, of a spendthrift, headstrong eldest son who indulges one fad after another and is treated with the respect his pretensions deserve by the older tenantry. |
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The walls were never painted during my tenantry, becoming dingier and dingier as the years went by. |
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