[22] Annals of Agriculture, vol. i. p. 72.
[23] An Inquiry into the Connection between the present Price of Provisions and the Size of Farms, 1773, p. 81.
[24] Report on Somerset, reprinted 1797, p. 52; compare Report on Commons in Brecknock, Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxii. p. 632, where commons are denounced as ‘hurtful to society by holding forth a temptation to idleness, that fell parent to vice and immorality’; also compare Ibid., vol. xx. p. 145, where they are said to encourage the commoners to be ‘hedge breakers, pilferers, nightly trespassers ... poultry and rabbit stealers, or such like.’
[25] P. 103.
[26] Committee on Inclosures, 1844, p. 135.
[27] House of Commons Journal, June 19, 1797.
[28] Large and Small Holdings, p. 24.
[29] Disappearance of Small Landowner, p. 90; Slater’s English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields, Appendix B.
[30] Parliamentary Register, March 30, 1781.
[31] See Dr. Slater’s detailed estimate.