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and by the Daily News, which promptly sent Mr. Archibald 

 Forbes, its war correspondent, to Warwickshire. Mr. 

 Forbes' articles aroused so much public sympathy that 

 money began flowing in from the public-spirited men of the 

 towns. Urban trade unions, and the London Trades Council 

 in particular, took up the agricultural labourers' cause. 



On the other hand the half-starved labourers found an 

 almost indescribable feeling of bitterness against them on 

 the part of the squirearchy, the clergy, and the farming class. 

 This rural trinity received the cordial support of the magis- 

 tracy, and most of the two hundred labourers who were the 

 first to strike had to find jobs in Liverpool, or Birmingham, 

 or Gateshead, or emigrate to Canada. 



Sir Charles Mordaunt, landowner of Wellesbourne, issued 

 notices to quit to all his tenants who joined the Union. A 

 placard in which the Wellesbourne farmers declared their 

 resolution to employ no union men and to eject them from 

 their cottages was issued and posted up about the county. 



There were some notable exceptions amongst the landlord 

 class. Lord Leigh, for instance, granted in advance the 

 155., whilst others offered 145. The spirit of the clergy 

 is difficult to understand, especially that of Dr. Ellicott, 

 the Bishop of Gloucester, who is reported to have said, with 

 reference to Arch : " There is an old saying, ' Don't nail 

 their ears to the pump and don't duck them in the horse- 

 pond.' " To which Arch wittily retorted, " The Bishop ap- 

 pears to believe in adult baptism, which is contrary to the 

 doctrine of the Church of England." 



When Arch visited Blandford in Dorset, an elderly 

 Baptist minister informs me, the Churchwardens ordered 

 the church bells to be rung to drown the sound of his 

 voice ! 



There were of course exceptions in Cardinal Manning, 

 Canon Girdlestone, the Hon. and Rev. J. W. Leigh, the 

 Dean of Hereford, Canon Tuckwell and Bishop Fraser, all 

 of whom championed the labourers. 



On Good Friday, 1872, a large demonstration was held at 

 Leamington. On this day, when the martyrdom of Man 

 was commemorated, that fashionable, residential town was 



