Pressures for change to the Poor Law

because of the French wars and the harvest failures, foreign corn was difficult to import
this allowed British farmers to push up prices of their crop
high corn prices meant high bread prices
and food was increasing more than wages could handle making people seek poor relief
the ending of blockade meant cheap foreign goods could be imported again
this forced down British crop
many farmers went bankrupt because of this and therefore their employees were out of a job = more people…

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