A Great Agricultural Estate: Being the Story of the Origin and Administration of Woburn and Thorney |
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25 per cent Abbey Acreage acres agri Agricultural Society allotments amount annual rental annum arable audit average Bedford Estates Bedfordshire Beds and Bucks BUCKS ESTATES Cattle Charities clover commercial cost cottage crop cultivation Deficit diture doors doors drainage drained Duke of Bedford Earl of Bedford Expendi EXPENDITURE excluding Store-yard expense experiments farm school farm tenants farmer FARMS IN HAND fences Fens field figures fruit farm fruit growing garden herbage improvement instruc interest labour Lady Day land to grass landlord Lord manure ment Michaelmas occupier owner Parish Council pasture Payments planted plough present profit rates reason Receipts reduction of rents remission of 25 remissions of rent remitted Rent received revaluation Ridgmont Russell seeds sheep Sir William small holdings soil sown tenants holding THORNEY ESTATE tion ture Wansford wheat Woburn Woburn Abbey Woods and Planta year's rent
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Page 74 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Page 21 - The cloister facing the south is covered with vines, and would have been proper for an orange-house, and the other for myrtles or other more common greens, and had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, if this piece of gardening had been then in as much vogue as it is now.
Page 20 - It lies on the side of a hill, (upon which the house stands) but not very steep. The length of the house, where the best rooms, and of most use or pleasure are, lies upon the breadth of the garden ; the great parlour...
Page 20 - Orange-Trees out of Flower and Fruit : From this Walk are Three Descents by many Stone Steps, in the Middle and at each End, into a very large Parterre. This is divided into Quarters by Gravel- Walks, and adorned with Two Fountains and Eight Statues in the several Quarters; at the End of the Terras...
Page 19 - The perfectest figure of a garden I ever saw, either at home or abroad, was that of Moor Park in Hertfordshire, when I knew it about thirty years ago. It was made by the Countess of Bedford, esteemed among the greatest wits of her time, and celebrated by Doctor Donne...
Page 21 - ... fountains and water-works. If the hill had not ended with the lower garden, and the wall were not bounded by a common way that goes through the park, they might have added a third quarter of all greens ; but this want is supplied by a garden on the other side the house, which is all of that sort, very wild, shady, and adorned with rough rock-work and fountains. This was Moor Park, when I was acquainted with it, and the sweetest place, I think, that I have seen in my life, either before or since,...
Page 19 - Thing else, as far as the Conduct not only of our Lives, but our Governments. And whether the greatest of Mortal Men should attempt the forcing of Nature may best be judged, by observing how seldom God Almighty does it Himself, by so few, true, and undisputed Miracles, as we see or hear of in the World. For my own part, I know not three wiser Precepts for the Conduct either of Princes or Private Men, than Servare Modum, Finemque tueri, Naturamque sequi.
Page 252 - From the Conversion of the Roman Empire to AD 900, with an account of the achievements and writings of the early Christian, Arab and Chinese Travellers and Students.
Page 80 - ... death one has to be carried into the presence of that terrible ancestress and that august array of her descendants, and to be examined whether one had been worthy of the race to which one belonged. But enough of this, and I will bring what I have to say to an end. It appears to me, for the reasons I have given, that a landed gentry of some sort must exist in a country so conditioned as ours. The only question is whether we shall be satisfied with those that we have, or whether we wish to see...
Page 19 - I will describe it for a model to those that meet with such a situation, and are above the regards of common expence. It lies on the side of a hill, upon which the house stands, but not very steep.