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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, JohnDate: 1800
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Remarks on the deficiency of grain , occasioned by the bad harvest of 1799; on the means of present relief, and of future plenty. With an appendix, Containing Accounts of all Corn Imported and Exported, With the Prices from 1697 to the 10th October 1800; and also Several Other Tables. By John, Lord Sheffield.
Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821.Date: [1800]-01
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An essay on the present high price of provisions . Wherein is shewn, and fully explained, the particular causes that enhance the price of each species of them. Particularly Corn, Butcher's Meat, Cheese and Butter; Distinguishing The natural and unavoidable Causes, from those that are artificial and remediable, with Proper and suitable Remedies for preventing the same. By Jos. Wimpey.
Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]
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Chronicon preciosum or, an account of English gold and silver money; the price of corn and other commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-Labour, &c. in England, for six hundred years last past: shewing From the Decrease of the Value of Money, and from the Increase of the Value of Corn and other Commodities, &c. that A Fellow, who has an Estate in Land of Inheritance, or a perpetual Pension of Five Pounds per Annum, may conscientiously keep his Fellowship, and ought not to be compelled to leave the same, tho' the Statutes of his College (founded between the Years 1440 and 1460) did then vacate his Fellowship on such Condition. By Bishop Fleetwood. To which is added, an historical account of coins, illustrated with several plates of Gold and Silver Coins.
Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]
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An essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions : as connected with luxury, currency, taxes, and national debt.
Dickson, Adam, 1721-1776.Date: 1773