[463] History of Hawsted, p. 169.
[464] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 127; Kent, Hints to Gentlemen, p. 152.
[465] Southern Tour, p. 324. He says nothing of the manufacturing towns, which had not yet began to influence the wages of farm labourers near them as they soon afterwards did.
[466] Some prices at this time were: bread per lb., 2d.; butter, 51/2d. to 8d.; cheese, 31/2d. to 4d.; beef, 3d. to 5d.; mutton, 31/2d. to 5d.
[467] State of the Poor, i. 562.
[468] According to Walter Harte, though the yeoman in the middle of the seventeenth century ate bread of rye and barley (maslin), in 1766 even the poor cottagers looked upon it with horror and demanded best wheaten bread. Yet in 1766 the quartern loaf in London was 1s. 6d.—Tooke, History of Prices, i. 68.
[469] History of Hawsted, p. 184.
[470] Eden, State of the Poor, i. 513.
[471] Rural Economy of Gloucestershire, i. 53.
[472] Eden, op. cit. i. 547.