[336] H. O. Papers, Municipal and Provincial.
[337] Of course the system was only one of the causes of this difference in wages.
[338] P. 99.
[339] See Agricultural State of the Kingdom, Board of Agriculture, p. 231, and Cobbett, Political Register, October 5, 1816.
[340] Pp. 21 and 23.
[341] The table is given in the Report of the Committee on the Poor Laws, 1828.
[342] Cobbett, Political Register, September 21, 1822. Cobbett wrote one of his liveliest articles on this scale, setting out the number of livings held by the five parsons, and various circumstances connected with their families.
[343] Ibid., September 9, 1826.
[344] Rural Rides, p. 17.
[345] Ibid., p. 609.