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What an entertaining and useful tour d’horizon. One tiny nit - the master of the Whig ascendancy was Sir Robert, not his son Horace, the author.

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Thanx for this. Was it really true 'that most people were probably Tory' or rather that that most electors were probably Tory?

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Out of interest, what evidence is there that enclosed farms had a greater uptake of nitrogen-fixing/root crops?

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This is interesting! Please give bibliography, it would be useful.

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