 | 1806 - 614 pages
...statute, when their abilities have been so poor, that they have not been able to buy •eedcorn to sow it withal, nay they have been fain to hire others...which if it had been unploughed, would have been good pasture for beasts, or might have been converted to other good USLS.' ' Sir Walter's remarks, on the... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1806 - 582 pages
...statute, when their abilities have been so poor, that they have not been able to buy sccdcurn to sow it withal, nay they have been fain to hire others...which if it had been unploughed, would have been good pasture for beasts, or might have been converted to other good wei.' — • Sir Walter's remarks,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Great Britain - 1829 - 710 pages
...statute, when their abilities have been " so poor, that they have not been able to buy seed-corn to " sow it withal ; nay, they have been fain to hire others...if it had been unploughed, would have " been good pasture for beasts, or might have been cou" verted to other good uses b." Upon this motion, all the... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Explorers - 1830 - 522 pages
...statute, when their abilities have been so poor that they have not been able to buy seed-corn to sow it ; nay, they have been fain to hire others to plough it, which if it had been unploughcd, would have been good pasture for beasts, or might have been converted to other good uses."... | |
 | Hector Menteith Robertson - Capitalism - 1959 - 310 pages
...Statute), when their abilities have been so poor that they have not been able to buy seedcorn to sow it withal; nay, they have been fain to hire others to plough land, which, if it had been unploughed, would have been good pasture for beasts, or might have been... | |
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For where the law pro" vides that every man must plough the third 'part of his " land ; I know divers poor people have done so, to avoid " the penalty of the statute, when their abilities have been " so poor, that they have not been able to buy seed-corn... 