Distress of working classes after 1815, [174], [192]

Distribution of wealth before Industrial Revolution, [153], [156]

Domesday Book, its historical value, [10]; condition of England as shown in, [11], and map; towns in, [24]; manors in (Cuxham and Aston), [16], [17]; population in, [12], [13]

Drawbacks of mediæval life, [79], [80]

Dreadnought, [227]

Dutch, agricultural improvements due to, [105], [110]; other improvements, [140]; wars with (Cromwell’s), [123], [130]; carrying trade once in hands of, [130]

Dyeing, [55], [133]

Earthquakes, [224]

East, development of trade with, after Crusades, [33]; in James I.’s reign, [129]

East India Company, [98], [127], [145], [216]