Note 262 — Chapter VII · THE REMEDIES OF 1795

The last of these systems had been included in a Bill introduced by Sir William Young in 1788. ‘In order to relieve agricultural labourers, who are often, during the winter, out of employment, the vestry in every parish is empowered, by notice affixed to the church door, to settle a rate of wages to be paid to labourers out of employ, from the 30th Nov. to the 28th of Feb.; and to distribute and send them round in rotation to the parishioners, proportionally as they pay to the Rates; to be paid by the person employing them two-thirds of the wages so settled, and one-third by the parish-officers out of the Rates.’—Eden, vol. i. p. 397.