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[er] _The mighty monosyllable high_ Rent! --[MS. ]

[es] ----_upon the audit day_. --[MS. M. ]

[334] ["Lord Londonderry proposed (April 29, 1822) that whenever wheat
should be under 60 shillings a quarter, Government should be authorized
to issue ? 1,000,000 in Exchequer bills to landed proprietors on the
security of their crops; that importation of foreign corn should be
permitted whenever the price of wheat should be at or above 70 shillings
a quarter . . . that a sliding-scale should be fixed, that for wheat being
under 80s. a quarter at 12 shillings; above 80s. and below 85s. , at 5
shillings; and above 85s. , only one shilling.
"--Allison's _History of
Europe_, 1815-1852, _and_ 1854, ii. 506. The first clause was thrown
out, but the rest of the bill passed May 13, 1822. ]

[et] {571} _For fear that riches_----. --[MS. M. ]

[eu] _Will sell the harvest at a market price_. --[MS. M. ]

[ev] _Are gone--their fields untilled_. --[MS. M. ]

[335] {572}[Peel's bill for the resumption of cash payments (Act 59 Geo.
III. cap. 49) was passed June 14, 1819.