[425] Brighton Chronicle, October 6, quoted in Times, October 14.
[426] For Brede see H. O. Papers, Extracts from Poor Law Commissioners’ Report, published 1833, and newspapers.
[427] They were signed by G. S. Hill, minister, by eight farmers and the four labourer delegates.
[428] Affidavit in H. O. Papers.
[429] Times, November 25.
[430] The petition was as follows: ‘We feel that in justice we ought not to suffer a moment to pass away without communicating to your Grace the great and unprecedented distress which we are enabled from our own personal experience to state prevails among all the peasantry to a degree not only dreadful to individuals, but also to an extent which, if not checked, must be attended with serious consequences to the national prosperity.’ Mr. Hodges does not mention the date, merely stating that it was sent to Wellington when Prime Minister.
[431] H. O. Papers.
[432] Ibid.
[433] Ibid.
[434] H. O. Papers.