FOOTNOTES:

[665] And an ever increasing burden of taxation.

[666] See Appendix III.

[667] R.A.S.E. Journal, 1881, pp. 142, 199.

[668] Parliamentary Reports of Commissioners, 1882, xiv. pp. 9 sq.

[669] Parliamentary Reports of Commissioners, 1882, xiv. 14.

[670] The rise between 1857 and 1878 has been estimated at 20 per cent., and between 1867 and 1877 at 111/2 per cent. Hasbach, op. cit., p. 291.

[671] R.A.S.E. Journal, 1890, p. 324.

[672] See infra, p. 330.

[673] Rural Economy of Southern Counties, i. 285-6.