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The main aims of the research project were: a) to produce a book on agricultural rent in England, 1690-1914, which was published in February 1997; b) to produce a rent index which is embodied in the book; c) to produce a database on agricultural rent in England, 1690-1914. The Data Archive holds and disseminates only the database.

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The dataset is a catalogue of rent assessed, rent received, and on which acreage it applied for ninety three English estates for selected runs of years from 1690-1914. The dataset is a mirror image of the data embodied in the book Agricultural Rent in England, which was used in the construction of the rent index, with the important distinction that the book contains a summary of the data in the appendix and not the full database. Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

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