not bought for what it yields in produce, "but for what it gives in social or political importance. No smaller man stands a chance. He is sure to he outbid by the larger proprietor seeking to enlarge his bounds. In the 17th century more than one-seventh of the whole population of England consisted of small landed proprietors — of yeomanry and peasantry- — exclusive of the tenant farmers who numbered nearly as many more.
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Observer, Volume 2, Issue 36, 21 May 1881, Page 388
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72Untitled Observer, Volume 2, Issue 36, 21 May 1881, Page 388
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