[385] Cobbett’s Political Register, March 17, 1821, p. 779.
[386] Bamford, Passages in the Life of a Radical, p. 38.
[387] Rural Rides, p. 460.
[388] Reflections, p. 61.
[389] Poor Law Report, 1817.
[390] Cf. Ibid., 1834, p. 161.
[391] Cf. case of apprentice, Annual Register, 1819, p. 195.
[392] Poor Law Report, 1817; in some cases there were amicable arrangements to keep down legal expenses; e.g. at Halifax (Eden), the overseer formed a society of the officers of adjoining parishes. Cases were referred to them, and the decision of the majority was accepted.
[393] Wealth of Nations, vol. iii. p. 234.
[394] Life in an English Village, by Maude F. Davies, p. 58.