150 



EVIDENCES AS TO DATE OF 



Mr. Prothero l when he says, ' Reduce population by one- 

 half, revive domestic industries, return commons and 

 wastes to their former barrenness, make the farmer inde- 

 pendent of manufacture, in a word, restore the conditions 

 of self-sufficing agriculture, and the peasant proprietor 

 may thrive/ and then I would add Protection. 



VI. OXON. : 21 PARISHES. 



VII. 



WILTS. : 46 PARISHES. 



1 Prothero, Pioneers of English Farming, p. 140. 



