Excerpt from The English Peasantry In the first chapter will be found a sum marized account of the general condition of the English peasantry as to wages, cottage rents, piece work, privileges, truck, pauperism, &c. The facts have been very carefully extracted from the Reports of the Commission on the Employ ment of Women and Children in Agriculture, and from the Poor Law Returns. For this in valuable summary, which presents a mass of im portant facts relating to the peasantry in every part of England visited by the Commissioners, I am indebted to the courtesy of the Hon. E. Stanhope, one of the Commissioners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.