Note 49 — Chapter I · FIRST THOUGHTS, 1798.
Reading edition
Hansard, Parl. Hist., vol. xxxiii, pp. 703 seq., Feb 12, 1796; cf. vol. xxxii. pp. 687 seq. The “Speenhamland Act of Parliament” was really an act of the Berkshire magistrates (1795), but had been widely imitated, and had certainly prepared the way for Pitt’s bill.