Note 263n — INDEX

[585] Walpole, History of England, i. 161.

[586] Inquiry into Agricultural Distress (1822), p. 40.

[587] Walpole, op. cit. ii. 22.

[588] A Letter to the Earl of Liverpool by an Old Tory, 1822. The Committee on Agricultural Distress found that farmers were paying rent out of capital (Parliamentary Reports. Committees, v. 71), and that leases fixed on the basis of the high prices of the war meant ruin to the farmer if held to his engagement.

[589] Parliamentary Reports, Committees, ix. 138.

[590] Cobbett, Rural Rides (ed. 1885), i. 3, 16.

[591] Report of the Committee on Agricultural Depression (1822), pp. 3, 4.

[592] Walpole, History of England, ii. 23.

[593] Hansard, ix. 1544.

[594] Ibid. x. 1, 2.

[595] Ibid. xii. 1.

[596] Rural Rides, ii. 199.

[597] Walpole, History of England, ii. 526. The distress was aggravated by rot among sheep, which is said to have destroyed one-fourth of those in the kingdom. See Parliamentary Reports, Commissioners (1836), viii (2), p. 198.

[598] Tooke, History of Prices, ii. 227.

[599] Report of 1833, p. 6.

[600] Tooke, History of Prices, ii, 238.

[601] Imports fell considerably at this date; they were:

1832 1,254,351quarters.

18331,166,457"

1834981,486"

1835750,808"

1836861,156 "

18371,109,492"

18381,923,400"

There were also considerable exports:

1832 289,558quarters.

183396,212"

1834159,482"

1835134,076"

1836256,978"

1837308,420"

1838158,621"

McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary (1847), p. 438.

[602] Porter, Progress of the Nation, p. 151.

[603] See Duncumb, General View of Herefordshire, (1805).

[604] Rural Rides, ii. 348.

[605] London, Encyclopaedia of Agriculture (1831), p. 1156.

[606] Cobbett, Rural Rides, i. 149. The average, however, now was about 9s.; see Parliamentary Reports, v. 72.

[607] A Letter to the Earl of Liverpool by an Old Tory (1822), p. 16.

[608] Rural Rides, i. 18.

[609] Moore, History of Devonshire, i. 430.

[610] By this Act and the various amending Acts the law of settlement, so long a burden on the labourer, is now settled thus: a settlement may be acquired by birth, parentage, marriage, renting a tenement, by being bound apprentice and inhabiting, by estate, payment of taxes, and by residence.—Stephen, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1903), iii. 87.

[611] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 217.

[612] R.A.S.E. Journal (1901), p. 9.