[136] P. 240.
[137] At St. Neots a gentleman complained to Arthur Young in 1791 that in the enclosure which took place sixteen years before, ‘the poor were ill-treated by having about half a rood given them in lieu of a cow keep, the inclosure of which land costing more than they could afford, they sold the lots at £5, the money was drank out at the ale-house, and the men, spoiled by the habit, came, with their families to the parish.’—Annals of Agriculture, vol. xvi. p. 482.
[138] Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxxvi. p. 508.
[139] Davies, The Case of Labourers in Husbandry, p. 15.
[140] In some instances it is reckoned as costing only 7s. Ibid., see p. 185.
[141] Davies, p. 181.
[142] Eden, vol. ii. p. 547.
[143] Vol. xxv. p. 488.
[144] See Annals of Agriculture, vol. ix. pp. 13, 14, 165–167, 636–646, and vol. x. pp. 218–227.
[145] Capel Lofft (1751–1824); follower of Fox; writer of poems and translations from Virgil and Petrarch; patron of Robert Bloomfield, author of Farmer’s Boy. Called by Boswell ‘This little David of popular spirit.’