[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.