[316] Smart, Economic Annals, p. 36.
[317] ‘It was during the war that the cottagers of England were chiefly deprived of the little pieces of land and garden, and made solely dependent for subsistence on the wages of their daily labour, or the poor rates. Land, and the produce of it, had become so valuable, that the labourer was envied the occupation of the smallest piece of ground which he possessed: and even “the bare-worn common” was denied.’—Kentish Chronicle, December 14, 1830.
[318] Curtler, p. 243.
[319] Agricultural State of the Kingdom, Board of Agriculture, 1816, p. 7.
[320] Ibid., pp. 250–1.
[321] P. 144.
[322] C. C. Western (1767–1844); whig M.P., 1790–1832; chief representative of agricultural interests; made peer in 1833.
[323] Annual Register, 1816, Chron., p. 67.
[324] The disturbances at Brandon ceased immediately on the concession of the demands of the rioters; flour was reduced to 2s. 6d. a stone, and wages were raised for two weeks to 2s. a head. The rioters were contented, and peace was restored.—Times, May 23, 1816.
[325] Annual Register, 1816, Chron., p. 67.