Barred by landlords from the mainstream urban rental market, they lived in wretched tenements.
For every other copyhold tenement a fine at the lords will is due on admission.
There were fourteen instances in which poor people were admitted to tenements with either reduced or canceled fines.
Tens of thousands of electors might be added to or subtracted from a constituency, simply by imposing or repealing the small tenements act.
From there, such youngsters could carry this information throughout the alleys and tenements, along the thoroughfares and into the shops where people gadded and gossiped.
Furthermore, the small tenements act was voluntary : it was parish vestries who decided whether it should be adopted.
Under the small tenements act of 1850, tenants rated at less than £6 ceased to pay their own rates.
First, the government should grant cheap land to people on condition that they built a tenement within six months.
