Note 167 — APRIL.
Reading edition
William Jacob, author of Travels in Spain in 1810-11, and several works on Political Economy. Among others "some tracts concerning the Poor Colonies instituted by the King of the Netherlands, which had marked influence in promoting the scheme of granting small allotments of land on easy terms to our cottagers; a scheme which, under the superintendence of Lord Braybrooke and other noblemen and gentlemen in various districts of England, appears to have been attended with most beneficent results."—Life, vol. ix. p. 229. Mr. Jacob died in 1852 aged eighty-eight.