[206] Reports on Poor, vol. ii. p. 178.
[207] Vol. ii. p. 587.
[208] Reports on Poor, vol. i. p. 134; another reason for the dearth of milk was the growing consumption of veal in the towns. Davies says (p. 19), ‘Suckling is here so profitable (to furnish veal for London) that the poor can seldom either buy or beg milk.’
[209] P. 27.
[210] See Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxv. pp. 367–8.
[211] Davies, p. 37.
[212] Ibid., p. 39.
[213] Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxvi. p. 121.
[214] The dearness of malt was another fact which helped the introduction of tea. Cf. Davies, p. 38: ‘Time was when small beer was reckoned one of the necessaries of life, even in poor families.’
[215] Lecky, History of England in Eighteenth Century, vol. ii. p. 318.