Note 459 — Chapter XII · THE LAST LABOURERS’ REVOLT
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Times, January 6, 1831. Cf. letter of Mr. R. Pollen, J.P., afterwards one of Winchester Commissioners, to Home Office, November 26: ‘It may be worth considering the law, which exempts all Threshing Machines from capital punishment, should such scenes as these occur again amongst the agricultural classes. I confess I view with great regret that they have found the mode of combining, which I had hoped was confined to the manufacturing classes.’