[89] William Petyt, Britannia Languens , op. cit., Preface, p. iv. E. P. Thompson presents the claims of the common people in the eighteenth century to a "moral economy" as a paternalist ideal revived principally in times of severe food shortages. E. P. Thompson, "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century," Past & Present Number 50 (February 1971), p. 88.