According to the first national census in 1846, over half the population lived on these communal landholdings; the significance in this is that peasant communities still held approximately half the land as well as half the population, whereas the servile tenantry was steadily declining.
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But with her usual kindness of heart and thoughtfulness for her humblest dependents, Queen Victoria soon saw what a boon it would be for the surrounding tenantry and villagers to be able to use Whippingham Station, rather than to have to go to Cowes or Newport, and then return for miles to their homes.
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The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland records that on 13 August 1540, King James V granted Robert Logan, son and heir apparent of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, the lands of Grogar with its mill, tenantries, etc, in the lordship of Cunningham [ RGS . III . 2188 ].
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Fairhurst Hall was at one time a place of worship for Roman Catholicism and a priest had been maintained at Wrightington Hall from the 1680s and a private chapel dedicated to St . Joseph was provided for the family, tenantry and employees until the building of St . Joseph's in 1892 by Charles Clifton Dicconson.
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"' 1997-2010 "': The Borough of Brighton wards of King's Cliff, Marine, Moulsecoomb, Queen's Park, Rottingdean, Tenantry, and Woodingdean, and the District of Lewes wards of East Saltdean, Peacehaven East, Peacehaven North, Peacehaven West, and Telscombe Cliffs.
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This translated to a decline in the Protestant population following the 1861 disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, the transfer of land ownership from Protestant Ascendancy to Catholic tenantry with the Irish Land Acts which began in the late 19th century, and the introduction of more democratic principles of government throughout that century and into the 20th.
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However, for the use of their tenantry they erected a special church, the so-called " people s church ", known from an old engraving in the cloister, which also shows the guesthouse by the road, the fish-pond, the gate-house with the monastery wall and the garden with the mill.
38.
A loyal address from the tenantry issued a few years earlier alludes to his'acts of liberality, munificence and kindness'and there is plenty of evidence to confirm that this was no mere empty elegy .'Lord Caledon', wrote Inglis in his book " Ireland " ( 1834 ),'is all that could be desire a really good resident country gentleman '.
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It had a long tradition of distinguished pastors since candidates for appointment to Doneraile were often chosen for their ability to promote cordial relations with the St . Legers, Viscount Doneraile, who were generally resident landlords, and politically known ( and at times suspect ) for their long tradition of enlightened tolerance for their Catholic tenantry which eschewed the traditionally bigoted outlook of their Boyle, Kingston, and Midleton counterparts.
40.
James Hadleigh played by Gerald Harper, was " the perfect squire, paternalistically careful of his tenantry's welfare, beloved in the village, respected in the council . " A " knight in a shining white Aston Martin V8 ( actually a Monteverdi 375L ), he sets about correcting local injustices . " His wife, from a suburban middle-class background, was played by Hilary Dwyer.
