Financial Pressures

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  • Corn prices fall to unprofitable levels
    • Wartime taxes and debts for enclosures forces farmers to bankruptcy.
      • Government bans corn imports to protect British farmers and workers.
        • Corn prices and jobs recovered at the cost of higher prices of bread.
          • Civil unrest erupts as parishes ******* relief to bread prices struggled.
            • Government responds with oppression rather than Poor Law reform
  • Demand for poor relief increases
    • Crisis years 1817-19 sees record poor relief spending of 12-13s/pax
      • Poor harvest
      • Returning soldiers
      • Disrupted trade

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