"[T]he most powerful tribune that the English poor have ever known."
— William Cobbett

January 1, 1970

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Sources

J. L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond, The Village Labourer 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1911), Chapter Nine: The Village in 1830