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Food supply - Great Britain

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    An address to the different classes of persons in Great Britain , On the present scarcity and high price of provisions. To which is added an appendix, containing a Table of the average Price of Wheat in every Year, from the Year 1595 to 1790, inclusive. By the Rev. Septimus Hodson, M. B. Chaplain of the Asylum for Female Orphans.

    Septimus Hodson | Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]
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    Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon, lord chief justice of the King's Bench, on the present high price of corn and other provisions

    Plain Man | Date: 1800
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    Observations on the present high price of provisions In a letter to the Lord Lieutenant and inhabitants of Hampshire. By John Duthy, Esq.

    Duthy, John | Date: 1800
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    Hints respecting the distresses of the poor

    John Coakley Lettsom | Date: 1795
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    Britain's food in wartime / by Sir John Russell.

    Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), 1872-1965. | Date: 1941
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Related topics

Corn laws (Great Britain)
Food prices - Great Britain
Great Britain - Economic conditions
Wheat trade - Great Britain
Poor - Great Britain
Grain trade - Great Britain
Scarcity

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