| Rain and Ruin - The Diary of an Oxfordshire Farmer - John Simpson Calvertt 1875 - 1900 Edited by Celia Miller |
| 13/09/1879 | | Only cut Harvest one day this week!! - to-day worse than ever - ruin to all Farmers - such a rainy Spring and Summer, has never occurred in my time - and so little sun - for weeks and months together - sales of farms all over the District & County. Groom, W. Reed : Cowman, Constable & Labourer Hunt leave at Michaelmas - also Williams - Jas. Dores returns to Leafield & Ph. Pratley drops from High Lodge, to Kingstanding |
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William Philip PRATLEY |