CHIEF AUTHORITIES
Journals of House of Commons for period.
Journals of House of Lords for period.
Reports of Parliamentary Debates for period in Parliamentary Register, Parliamentary History, Senator and Parliamentary Debates.
Statutes, Public and Private for period.
Enclosure Awards in Record Office or Duchy of Lancaster.
Home Office Papers in Record Office.
Parliamentary Papers for period; specially—
For Enclosures—
Report from Select Committee on Standing Orders relating to Private Bills, 1775.
Report from Select Committee on Waste Lands. Ordered to be printed December 23, 1795.
Report from Select Committee on Waste Lands, 1797.
Report from Select Committee on Means of Facilitating Inclosure, 1800. (Deals specially with Expense).
Report from Select Committee on Constitution of Select Committees on Private Bills, 1825.
Report from Select Committee on Commons Inclosure, 1844.
For Poor Laws—
Report from Select Committee on Poor Laws, 1817.
Report from Lords Committee on Poor Laws, 1818.
Report from Select Committee on Poor Laws, 1819.
Report from Select Committee on Relief of Able-Bodied from the Poor Rate, 1828.
Report from Lords on Poor Law, 1828.
Documents in possession of Poor Law Commissioners, 1833.
Report of Poor Laws Commissioners, 1834
For Game Laws, Crime, and Punishment—
Report from Select Committee on Game Laws, 1823.
Report from Lords Committee on Game Laws, 1828.
Report from Select Committee on Criminal Commitments and Convictions, 1827.
Report from Select Committee on Criminal Commitments and Convictions, 1828.
Return of Convictions under the Game Laws from 1827–30.
Report from Select Committee on Secondary Punishments, 1831.
Report from Select Committee on Secondary Punishments, 1832.
Report from Select Committee on Transportation, 1838.
For other Social Questions—
Report from Select Committee on Agricultural Distress, 1821.
Report from Select Committee on Labourers’ Wages, 1824.
Reports from Select Committee on Emigration, 1826–7.
Report from Select Committee on Agriculture, 1833.
Report from Select Committee on Allotment System, 1843.
Publications of Board of Agriculture.
General Report on Enclosures, 1808.
Report on the Agricultural State of the Kingdom, 1816.
Agricultural Surveys of different Counties, by various writers, alluded to in text as Bedford Report, Middlesex Report, etc.
Annual Register for period.
Annals of Agriculture, 1784–1815 (46 vols.).
Cobbett’s Political Register, 1802–35.
The Tribune (mainly Thelwall’s lectures), 1795–6.
Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Improving the Comforts of the Poor, (5 vols.), 1795–1808.
Ruggles, Thomas, History of the Poor, 1793 (published first in Annals of Agriculture).
Davies, David, The Case of Labourers in Husbandry stated and considered, 1795.
Eden, Sir Frederic Morton, The State of the Poor or An History of the Labouring Classes in England, 1797.
The Works of Arthur Young, William Marshall, and other contemporary writers on agriculture and enclosures; see list in Hasbach, History of the English Agricultural Labourer.
Cobbett’s Works.
Dunkin’s History of Oxfordshire.
Carlisle Papers, Historical MSS. Commission.
Memoir of Lord Suffield, by R. M. Bacon, 1838.
Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, 1842.
Modern Authorities
Babeau, A., Le Village sous l’ancien Régime.
Curtler, W. H. R., A Short History of English Agriculture.
Eversley, Lord, Commons, Forests, and Footpaths.
Hasbach, Wilhelm, History of the English Agricultural Labourer.
Hirst, F. W., and Redlich, J., Local Government in England.
Hobson, J. A., The Industrial System.
Hudson, W. H., A Shepherd’s Life.
Jenks, E., Outlines of Local Government.
Johnson, A. H., The Disappearance of the Small Landowner.
Kovalewsky, M., La France Économique et Sociale à la Veille de la Révolution.
Levy, H., Large and Small Holdings.
Mantoux, P., La Révolution Industrielle.
Porritt, E., The Unreformed House of Commons.
Scrutton, T. E., Commons and Common Fields.
Slater, G., The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields.
Smart, W., Economic Annals of the Nineteenth Century.
De Tocqueville, L’ancien Régime.
Vinogradoff, P., The Growth of the Manor.
Webb, S. and B., English Local Government.—The Parish and the County.
—— English Local Government.—The Manor and the Borough.