 | John Hill Burton - 1849 - 356 páginas
...wretchedness of the English roads in the seventeenth century, and the miseries of travelling, says, ' One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 páginas
...hours, he never once alighted, except when his coach was overturned or stuck fast in the mud.* Ono chief cause of the badness of the roads seems to have...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 páginas
...forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense was met by a parochial rate. That a route connecting two great towns, which have a large and thriving trade with each other, should be maintained... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 páginas
...his coach was overturned or stuck fastun the mud.|| One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems have been the defective state of the law. Every parish...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the' year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 1052 páginas
...coach was overturned or stuck fast in -he mud.'y One chief cause of the badness of the roads •eems to have been the defective state of the law. Every...to repair the highways which passed through it. The peawere forced to give their gratuitous • Tbnrr.by's Diary, May 17, 1695. t ídem. Dw. 27. 170S.... | |
 | James Birchall - 1861 - 760 páginas
...This was ^pairing owing to the defective state of the law, which only bound highways. evei.y parish to repair the highways which passed through it. The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year, and if this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 668 páginas
...in a body to Parliament with guides and numerous attendants, took him into their company. || On the One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
 | 1867 - 634 páginas
...hours he never once alighted, except when the coach was overturned or stack in the mud. One chief canse of the badness of the roads seems to have been the...state of the law. Every parish was bound to repair the highway that passed through it. The peasantry were forced to give gratuitous labour six days in the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 476 páginas
...§ Annals of Queen Anne, Earl of Clarendon, Dec. 30. 1685, 1703, Appendix, No. 3. Jan. 1. 1686. cc 3 One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems...passed through it. The peasantry were forced to give theii gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed,... | |
 | Edward Jeboult - 1873 - 394 páginas
...fourteen hours, he never once alighted, except when his coach was overturned or stuck fast in the mud. Quo chief cause of the badness of the roads seems to have...The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year. If this was not sufficient, hired labour was employed, and the expense... | |
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If this was not sufficient, hired labor was employed, and the expense was met by a parochial rate. That a route connecting two great towns, which have a large and thriving trade with each other, should be maintained at the cost of the rural population... 
