[266] House of Commons Journal.
[267] Parliamentary Register, February 11, 1800.
[268] 35 George III. c. 101.
[269] For Whitbread’s proposals to amend the Law of Settlement in 1807 see next chapter. An attempt was made in 1819 (59 George III. c. 50) to define and simplify the conditions under which the hiring of a tenement of £10 annual value conferred the right to a settlement. The term of residence was extended to a year, the nature of the tenement was defined, and it was laid down that the rent must be £10, and paid for a whole year. But so unsuccessful was this piece of legislation that it was found necessary to pass a second Act six years later (1826, 6 George IV. c. 57), and a third Act in 1831 (1 William IV. c. 18).
[270] Senator, March 1800.
[271] See Debates in Senator, March 31 and April 3, 1800, and Parliamentary Register. Cf. for removals for temporary distress, Sir Thomas Bernard’s Charge to Overseers in the Hundred of Stoke. Bucks. Reports on Poor, vol. i. p. 260. ‘With regard to the removal of labourers belonging to other parishes, consider thoroughly what you may lose, and what the individual may suffer, by the removal, before you apply to us on the subject. Where you have had, for a long time, the benefit of their labour, and where all they want is a little temporary relief, reflect whether, after so many years spent in your service, this is the moment and the cause, for removing them from the scene of their daily labour to a distant parish, etc.’ (1798).
[272] Davies, pp. 102–4.
[273] 15 George III. c. 32.
[274] Reports on Poor, vol. ii. p. 171.
[275] Reports on Poor, vol. ii. p. 136.