Author: EAST SUSSEX ASSOCIATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LABOURERS' CONDITION AND THE GENERAL IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Title: [Award]...Four Pounds were awarded to William Arnold... First Premium, offered by the association, to the most deserving Labourers in Agriculture... Signed [Lord] Chichester [with his seal].
Description: Firle: The Association, 9th. June, 1848. Card, 155 x 115 mm. browned. Awarded "...to the most deserving Labourers in Agriculture, or to the Widows of such Labourers who shall for the longest period (not less than eight years) have brought up and supported the largest families, in habits of industry, and without receiving any relief from the parish." General farm labourer's wages would have been around 20d per day at this time so £4 was equivalent to around 2 month's earnings.

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