Moreover, their niche was both lucrative and stable, for all the pelterers and most of the tanners were residents of the juratorial group in St. Ives.[…]In the agrarian communities the employers were uniformly of juratorial stature.

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He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]

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