[276] Ibid., p. 137.
[277] Ibid., vol. v. p. 66.
[278] Mr. Estcourt mentions that the land ‘would let to a farmer at about 20s. per acre now.’
[279] It is interesting to find that these allotments were still being let out successfully in 1868. See p. 4145 of the Report on the Employment of Children, Young Persons, and Women in Agriculture, 1868.
[280] Reports on Poor, vol. iii. p. 329.
[281] 1803, p. 850.
[282] Reports on Poor, vol. i. p. 100.
[283] Vol. xxvi. p. 4.
[284] The most distinguished advocate of this policy was William Marshall, the agricultural writer who published a strong appeal for the labourers in his book On the Management of Landed Estates, 1806, p. 155; cf. also Curwen’s Hints, p. 239: ‘A farther attention to the cottager’s comfort is attended with little cost; I mean giving him a small garden, and planting that as well as the walls of his house with fruit trees.’
[285] Vol. xxv. p. 349.