[426] Tooke, History of Prices, i. 42.
[427] Cf. this and Tull's character of servants with Defoe's accusation of their laziness.
[428] Salisbury newspaper, quoted by Baker, Seasons and Prices, p. 187.
[429] See Autobiography of Wm. Stout, ed. by J. Harland.
[430] Gentleman's Magazine, 1742.
[431] Baker, op. cit. p. 194.
[432] A Defence of the Farmers of Great Britain (1814), p. 30.
[433] Tooke, History of Prices, i. 42.
[434] See a curious pamphlet called An Exhortation to all People to Consider the Afflicting Hand of God (1754), p. 6. The plague lasted from 1745 to 1756.
[435] The Compleat Cyderman, p. 46.