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1. The Miller and the Baker. A Note on Commercial Transition 1770–1837

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2011

C. R. Fay
Affiliation:
Late Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, Professor of Economic History in the University of Toronto.
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page 86 note 1 Committee (H. of C.) on Methods practised in making Flour from Wheat, 1774. App. H, Observations by Henry Pelham.

page 86 note 2 Committee (H. of C.) on Laws relating to the Manufacture, Sale and Assize of Bread. Chairman Frank Lewis, 1815.

page 86 note 3 Committee of 1815. Report, p. 6.

page 87 note 1 Committee (H. of C.) on the High Price of Provisions. 7th Report, June 24, 1801. Evidence of W. Reynolds.

page 87 note 2 Committee of 1815. Report, p. 7.

page 87 note 3 Committee of 1774. Resolutions 3.

page 88 note 1 Committee (H. of C.) on Existing Regulations relative to the making and the sale of bread (1821).

page 88 note 2 Committee of 1821, p. 5.

page 88 note 3 Committee of 1815. Report, p. 8.

page 89 note 1 Committee (H. of C.) on Allowances granted to Bakers by 53 Geo. III, c. 116 in those places where an Assize of Bread is set, 1824. Evidence of Mr Turner, a baker, p. 6. This document informs us that in Oxford the Assize was set by the University: “The household bread is generally used by the inhabitants; the wheaten in the colleges, with the small bread.”

page 89 note 2 Brereton, 1825, Practical Enquiry into the number…of agricultural labourers.

page 89 note 3 Minutes of Evidence on the Country Baker's Bill, 1813, p. 7.

page 90 note 1 Committee (H. of C.) on the Petition of certain Country Bakers, 1813. Evidence of a Worcester baker.

page 90 note 2 Ibid.

page 90 note 3 Ibid.

page 90 note 4 Minutes of Evidence on the Country Baker's Bill, 1813, p. 36.

page 90 note 5 Ibid. p. 19.

page 90 note 6 The same is recorded of Bath, Bristol and other towns. Committee (H. of C.) on the Petition of certain Country Bakers, 1813.

page 91 note 1 Committee (H. of C.) on Petitions of certain Country Bakers, 1813. Evidence of Geo. Everet, Baker, of Worcester.

page 91 note 2 Committee (H. of C.) on the Laws relating to the Manufacture, Sale and Assize of Bread, 1815. App. No. 8.

page 91 note 3 MS. Minutes Quarter Sessions, Norwich, 1815, Easter. Quoted by S. and B.Webb, Economic Journal, June, 1904 (Vol. XIV), The Assize of Bread, p. 217.