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Farm Defined

One party might acquire, on a basis similar to a lease, from another party one or more rights, jurisdictions, revenues or properties – often a combination thereof – by taking them to farm (today we still talk about "farming out" sources of revenue). A farm was a pre-determined lump-sum amount assessed for one year (although payments might be made in instalments) on an estimation of the value of the revenues. In theory at least, a farm was a fixed, or "firm", amount from year to year, as opposed to a rent, which might fluctuate according to property values; however, in practice farms were often renegotiated if the value of the sources of revenues changed, while "rents of assize" were considered to have a fixed value that could not be changed by, for example, a new owner (such rents themselves being subject to sale, gift or bequest, quite independently from the ownership of the real estate itself). The firma burgi, or fee-farm of a borough, was the annual sum due the Exchequer in return for the king allowing the farmer to administer the borough – or rather, administer its sources of revenue (which might include property rents and taxes, local tolls, court amercements). Before the period of self-government, boroughs were farmed by local potentates (e.g. county sheriffs) or entrepreneurs; the aim was to be able to make a profit from the revenues beyond the amount due for the farm, and this could result in extortionate measures. Hence the desire of the townsmen to acquire the farm for themselves, which necessitated taking the reins of local administration. With the grants of self-government to boroughs by (principally) kings Richard I and John, the farm became in effect a perpetual lease. The amount of the fee-farm was fixed at the time of the original negotiation, but might increase if subsequent additions to jurisdictions, revenues etc. were granted, or decrease if the value of borough revenues demonstrably decline: thus, for example, we see many adjustments in valuations at the time of Domesday Book, while towards the end of the Middle Ages many towns were making cases for reduction of their fee-farm due to local hardship or abnormal expenses (e.g. building defensive fortifications). Boroughs themselves sometimes farmed out to townsmen sources of revenue (with associated offices, if applicable) or communal properties, since this assured the borough a guaranteed (lump sum) revenue, regardless of what income the farmer was able to extract.

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Published November 17, 2008, 9:02 pm, The State

Six actors take a bow at the end of “Fen” at Theatre South Carolina at USC. Since we’ve just seen a play with 20 characters, it’s a little stunning. To say this ensemble has taken on a challenging task with Caryl Churchill’s 1983 play is an understatement. Under nearly flawless direction by graduate student Neal Easterling, they’ve also done a thoroughly remarkable production of a complex play ...

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Published November 17, 2008, 3:18 pm, USA Today

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Books: "A Revolution in Taste"

Published November 16, 2008, 9:10 pm, The New Yorker

Pinkard reveals that before the storming of the Bastille a revolution took place at dinner tables all over France, when ornate, liberally spiced medieval styles of cooking were displaced by farm-fresh food prepared so that it “not only tasted, but also looked, like what it was.” Le goût naturel . . .

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Hyeholde garners legendary status

Published November 15, 2008, 9:29 pm, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

In a volatile industry where restaurants and their workers constantly come and go, Hyeholde Restaurant in Moon has remained a bastion of stability and tranquility over seven decades.

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Calendar: Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008

Published November 15, 2008, 12:10 am, New Orleans Times-Picayune

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Museum of Garden History

Published November 14, 2008, 11:13 pm, EDP24 - Eastern Daily Press

When you approach the ancient ex-parish church of St Mary-at-Lambeth - across the Thames from Tate Britain and at the gate of Lambeth Palace - there is almost nothing to reveal the tendrils of the revolutionary growth now teeming inside.

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Published November 14, 2008, 5:00 am, The Australian

IT is the helipad that throws me. That and the nine-hole golf course.

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Charming picture sells for ÂŁ5,600

Published November 13, 2008, 3:02 am, ic CheshireOnline

A CHARMING portrait of a young girl found in a Spanish junk shop sold for ÂŁ5,600 auction last week. The picture by respected English Victorian artist Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (1843-1927) was bought in the shop as a wall-filler.

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Books of the year 2008

Published November 13, 2008, 1:34 am, The New Statesman

Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened of (Cape, ÂŁ16.99) is a nice corrective to the one-note atheism of Dawkins and the rest. It is human, clever and full of doubt: "I don't believe in God, but I miss him . . ."

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  • A lone bright spot in real estate: farmland: Nationally, farmland is up nearly 9 percent from a year ago. In Iowa, it's up 18 percent; South Dakota, up 21 percent. Illinois has seen farmland values nearly double since 2004. But rising land values cut both ways for farming communities. While they increase local wealth of landowners and bring in new money, they also shut most young people out of farming and cause even established producers to pay more to rent land. They also speed the concentration of farmland into fewer and fewer hands, some economists and rural advocates say. Rising values put land "out of reach to all but those who have large farms and/or corporate backing," says Brian Dabson, a professor at the Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri-Colum bia and executive vice president of the Rural Policy Research Institute. "And that's not healthy for a rural economy." The rise in land values reflects the extraordinary profits from agriculture lately.

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