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This was a digest of the evidence on tenant right given in the previous year before the famous committee of the House of
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continued to be issued annually in their joint names, notwithstanding Shaw's death in 1853, until 1872. Shaw was a great supporter of farmers' clubs, and a frequent speaker and reader of papers at them. The establishment of the London
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