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I am a regular follower of your RSS feed and much appreciate what you and other bloggers have done for increasing my mental stimulation. It's much better than the old days when I would come home from work and sit in front of the TV watching professional wrestling.
In partial payment, here's a tidbit from the latest entry in Pepy's diary which I thought you would like:
Here they did talk much of the present cheapness of corne, even to a miracle; so as their farmers can pay no rent, but do fling up their lands; and would pay in corne: but, which I did observe to my Lord, and he liked well of it, our gentry are grown so ignorant in every thing of good husbandry, that they know not how to bestow this corne: which, did they understand but a little trade, they would be able to joyne together, and know what markets there are abroad, and send it thither, and thereby ease their tenants and be able to pay themselves.
Published on February 13, 2011 21:23