[102] Slater, pp. 126–7.
[103] Ibid., p. 128.
[104] The Poor Man’s Best Friend, or Land to cultivate for his own Benefit. Letter to the Marquis of Salisbury, by the Rev. S. Demainbray, B.D., 1831.
[105] P. 126.
[106] See for this subject Cambridge Modern History, vol. viii. chap. 24, and P. Sagnac, La Législation Civile de la Révolution Française.
[107] Vol. i. p. 119 ff.
[108] Jackson’s Oxford Journal, September 11, 1830, said that a single cottager sometimes cleared as much as £20 a year by geese.
[109] Oxford University and City Herald, September 25, 1830.
[110] House of Commons Journal, February 17, 1815.
[111] Alexander Croke (1758–1842), knighted in 1816, was from 1801–1815 judge in the Vice-Admiralty Court, Nova Scotia. As a lawyer, he could defend his own interests.