[296] Speenhamland is now part of Newbury. The Pelican Inn has disappeared, but the Pelican Posting House survives.
[297] Charles Dundas, afterwards Lord Amesbury, 1751–1832; Liberal M.P. for Berkshire, 1794–1832, nominated by Sheridan for the Speakership in 1802 but withdrew.
[298] Reading Mercury, April 20, 1795.
[299] Reading Mercury, April 20, 1795.
[300] See Ibid., May 11, 1795.
[301] Eden, vol. i. p. 578.
[302] On the same day a ‘respectable meeting’ at Basingstoke, with the Mayor in the chair, was advocating the fixing of labourers’ wages in accordance with the price of wheat without any reference to parish relief.—Reading Mercury, May 11, 1795.
[303] See Ipswich Journal, February 7, 1795, and Reading Mercury, July 6, 1795.
[304] Eden, vol. ii. p. 384.
[305] Ibid., p. 548.