[75] Works, i. 255.
[76] See Sir G. Nicholls's History of the Poor-law, 1854. A new edition, with life by H. G. Willink, appeared in 1898.
[77] History, i. 175.
[78] M'Culloch's note to Wealth of Nations, p. 65. M'Culloch in his appendix makes some sensible remarks upon the absence of any properly constituted parochial 'tribunal.'
[79] Wealth of Nations, bk. i. ch. x.
[80] See passage quoted in Eden's History, i. 347.
[81] Thomas Firmin (1632-1677), a philanthropist, whose Socinianism did not exclude him from the friendship of such liberal bishops as Tillotson and Fowler, started a workhouse in 1676.
[82] Nicholls (1898), ii. 14.
[83] Ibid. (1898), ii. 123.
[84] Report, p. 67.