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The village labourer, 1760-1832

Note 349 — Chapter VIII · AFTER SPEENHAMLAND

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The Archbishop of Canterbury prosecuted a man under this Act in January 1831, for rescuing a poacher from a gamekeeper without violence, on the ground that he thought it his duty to enforce the provisions of the Act.

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