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Catalogue description HO 42. Letters and papers. Comprised almost entirely of completed questionnaires,...
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| Reference: | HO 42/54 |
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| Description: | HO 42. Letters and papers. Comprised almost entirely of completed questionnaires, collated by diocesan bishops for the Home Secretary, regarding the harvest, crop availability and prices. |
| Note: | Crop returns, completed by parish incumbents and forwarded to the Home Secretary by diocesan bishops, answered five questions: What has been the produce of the late crop in your district and county, so far as you have means of information, comparatively with former crops; or, if you can state it, what is the estimated number of bushels per acre, distinguishing the wheat, barley, oats and potatoes; and also stating the comparative crops of hay, beans, and turnips? What is the price in your market town of wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, hay, and beans, and beef and mutton, in the month of October, 1800, comparatively with the same period in 1799 and 1798? Has the produce of the last harvest been begun to be consumed; is there any reason to believe that there is any considerable quantity of old wheat in store? Has much foreign wheat or flour been brought into your part of the country? Is there much use made of rice, barley, or oats, as substitutes? |
| Date: | 1800 Nov 01-1800 Nov 30 |
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The digital images of these records were taken from old microfilm copies. A later cataloguing project restored the chronological arrangement of the papers and re-foliated the pages. As a result, the folio numbering of the catalogue descriptions for individual items does not match the numbering of the digital images, and some images may appear out of sequence. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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