The village labourer, 1760-1832 / A study in the government of England before the Reform Bill

by J. L. Hammond; Barbara Bradby Hammond

[52] A Political Enquiry into the Consequences of enclosing Waste Lands, 1785, p. 108.

[53] See Appendix A (12).

[54] House of Commons, May 1, 1845.

[55] Aglionby, House of Commons, June 5, 1844.

[56] Thurlow was Chancellor from 1778 to 1783 (when Fox contrived to get rid of him) and from 1783 to 1792.

[57] Parliamentary Register, House of Lords, March 30, 1781.

[58] Sir George Savile (1726–1784), M.P. for Yorkshire, 1759–1783; carried the Catholic Relief Bill, which provoked the Gordon Riots, and presented the great Yorkshire Petition for Economical Reform.

[59] Annual Register, 1867, p. 68. For a detailed history of the Stanwell Enclosure, see Appendix A (10). Unhappily the farmers were only reprieved; Stanwell was enclosed at the second attempt.

[60] See Parliamentary Register, House of Lords, March 30, 1781; April 6, 1781; June 14, 1781.

[61] John Warren (1730–1800).