[85] William Hay, for example, carried resolutions in the House of Commons in 1735, but failed to carry a bill which had this object. See Eden's History, i. 396. Cooper in 1763 proposed to make the hundred the unit.—Nicholls's History, i. 58. Fielding proposes a similar change in London. Dean Tucker speaks of the evil of the limited area in his Manifold Causes of the Increase of the Poor (1760).
[86] Nicholls, ii. 88.
[87] Parl. Hist. xxxii. 710.
[88] A full abstract is given in Edens History, iii. ccclxiii. etc.
[89] Bentham observes (Works, viii. 448) that the cow will require the three acres to keep it.
[90] Cobbett's Political Works, vi. 64
[91] I need only note here that the first edition of Malthus's Essay appeared in 1798, the year after Eden's publication.
[92] Eden's History, i. 583.
[93] Ibid. i. 587.
[94] Maseres, an excellent Whig, a good mathematician, and a respected lawyer, is perhaps best known at present from his portrait in Charles Lamb's Old Benchers.