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The village labourer, 1760-1832

Note 331 — Chapter VIII · AFTER SPEENHAMLAND

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Those assessed at £100 were to have two votes, those at £150 three votes, and those at £400 four votes. Whitbread did not propose to copy the provision of Gilbert’s Act, which withdrew all voting power in vestries in parishes that adopted that Act from persons assessed at less than £5.

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