[455] Times, December 21, 1830.

[456] Sir James Parke (1782–1868).

[457] Times, January 3, 1831.

[458] Sir E. H. Alderson (1787–1857).

[459] Times, January 6, 1831. Cf. letter of Mr. R. Pollen, J.P., afterwards one of Winchester Commissioners, to Home Office, November 26: ‘It may be worth considering the law, which exempts all Threshing Machines from capital punishment, should such scenes as these occur again amongst the agricultural classes. I confess I view with great regret that they have found the mode of combining, which I had hoped was confined to the manufacturing classes.’

[460] Sir J. A. Park (1763–1838).

[461] Times, January 15, 1831.

[462] Ibid., January 12, 1831.

[463] Ibid.

[464] February 8, 1831.