[473] Farmer's Letters, i. 300
[474] The pulling down of cottages began to be complained of in the seventeenth century; they harboured the poor, who were a charge upon the parish, and repairs were saved.—Transactions Royal Historical Society (New Series), xix. 120.
[475] Hasbach, op. cit. 82; Clarke, General View of Herefordshire, p. 29; Marshall, Review of Northern Department, p. 375.
[476] Tooke, History of Prices, i. 50; Hallam, Constitutional History, iii. 302.
[477] Northern Tour, iv. 420. The increase in population in the first half of the eighteenth century was slow; after the Peace of Paris in 1763, when the commerce and manufactures of the country were extended in an unprecedented degree, it was rapid.
[478] The Way to be Rich and Respectable, London, 1780.
[479] Grose, Olio, pp. 41-4; Lecky, History of England in Eighteenth Century, vi. 169 et. seq.
[480] Cullum, History of Hawsted, p. 219.
[481] Cullum, History of Hawsted, p. 225.
[482] Thoughts on Enclosure, by a Country Farmer (1786), p. 21.