[42] Eden, The State of the Poor, vol. ii. p. 157.
[43] Eden, writing a few years later, remarks that since the enclosure ‘the property in Holy Island has gotten into fewer hands,’ vol. ii. p. 149.
[44] Report of Select Committee on Most Effectual Means of Facilitating Enclosure, 1800.
[45] Cf. also Wraisbury in Bucks, House of Commons Journal, June 17, 1799, where the petitioners against the Bill claimed that they spoke on behalf of ‘by much the greatest Part of the Proprietors of the said Lands and Grounds,’ yet in the enumeration of consents the committee state that the owners of property assessed at £6, 18s. are hostile out of a total value of £295, 14s.
[46] House of Commons Journal, March 21, 1796.
[47] House of Commons Journal, June 10, 1801; cf. also case of Laleham. See Appendix.
[48] Ibid., June 15, 1801.
[49] Ibid., May 3, 1809.
[50] Ibid., June 29, 1797.
[51] See Appendix A (13).