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Title: "Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c.
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Gough, E. W
Subjects: Horses Horsemanship
Publisher: London : Hardwicke and Bogue
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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t ^^t THE FREE REGISTRY SYSTEM. Honesty is the best policy.When the land had become desolated through theWars of the Roses, and England lay half unpeopled bythe feuds of York and Lancaster, labourers were few, and,as a consequence, higher wages were demanded ; but thegovernment stepped in and declared the wages oflabourers, artificers, and others should be the same asthey were before the civil wars ; and by the Act of Parlia-ment, 5 Elizabeth, cap. 4, sec. 5, it was enacted:— That the justices of every shire, riding, and liberty, or the morepart of them, being then resident within the same, and thesheriff, if he conveniently may, and every mayor and otherhead officer within any city or to^vn corporate * * * *shall yearly in Easter Sessions, or within six weeks next after,assemble and call unto them such discreet and grave personsas they shall think meet; and having respect to the plenty orscarcity of the time, and other circumstances, shall haveauthority to limit and appoint the wag

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