Note 115 — Chapter III
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See Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, i. 335. Also in an age when the idea of Competitive price had not yet been evolved, and when regulation by authority was the custom, it was natural and right that the Government in such a crisis should try to check the demands of both labourers and producers, which went far beyond what employers or consumers could pay. Putnam, Enforcement of the Statute of Labourers, 220.