[28] Ibid., Qs. 869-78.

[29] Report of Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture (1843), pp. 20, 25.

[30] Ibid., pp. 299-300.

[31] Report of Commissioners on the Employment of Young Persons in Agriculture, p. 64.

[32] Dr. Cook Taylor, Letter to the Morning Chronicle, dated from Rossendale Forest (Lancashire), June 20, 1842.

[33] Rural Rides, i. 219.

[34] Poor Law Commission of 1834, Appendix.

[35] Hand-loom Weavers' Commission, Final Report, 1841, p. 18.

[36] Hand-loom Weavers' Commission, Assistant-Commissioner's Report, 1840, Part IV, pp. 76-81.

[37] Second Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 1836.