A Short History of English Agriculture

by W. H. R. Curtler

India,
imports from, [324];
wool from, [328].
Ine, laws of, as to fencing, [5].
Inherent capabilities of the soil, [301].
Inns, markets for produce, [323].
Inoculation of fruit trees, [131].
Intensive cultivation, [2].
Irish imports, [161], [262], [324-5], [328];
labourers, [209], [306].
Irrigation, [113], [132], [217].
Isle of Wight, [172n.]
Italy, exports to, [349];
wool exported to, [39], [327].
J
Jamaica, wool from, [328].
Jersey cattle, [275], [339], (See Alderney.)
Jus faldae, [64].
Justices regulate wages, [107].
K
Kent, [40], [128], [143-7], [157], [171], [173], [186], [259], [265], [283], [295], [306n.], [309].
Kentish
cattle, [168];
sheep, [343], [344].
Kerry cattle, [343].
Kett, rising of, [96].
Ketton, [233], [235].
Kilns, hop, [151].
King's, Gregory, statistics, [120], [140], [141], [155], [258-9], [260], [353].
Kingston, Lord, estate rents of, [116].
Knights Hospitallers' estates, [40].
L
Labour,
cost of, per acre, [313];
services, [6], [12], [25], [27], [42], [45], [56], [61].
Labourer, character of, in eighteenth century, [175], [184], [201], [204],
[205], [210];
condition of, at end of eighteenth century, [237-9];
condition of, in nineteenth century, [257], [266-8], [269], [270], [279],
[283-4], [285], [290-2], [297], [311-2], [313-4], [315], [320], [355];
decrease of, [305], [311n.], [315];
life of, in Middle Ages,[53], [54], [67], [71], [103];
made a land-less man by enclosure, [196], [257];
number of (1688), [156];
savings of, [102-3], [156];
sports of, [55];
the home of the, [52], [158];
wages of, see Wages.
Lambs, to fall March [25], [126].
Lammas, [4], [112], [137].
Lancashire, [44], [78], [106], [110], [147], [163], [167], [207], [216], [219], [282],
[283], [284], [309], [312], [316], [320], [343], [346].
Land, value of, [19], [36], [40], [66], [117], [133], [149], [183], [243], [286-7],
[293], [304], [310], [328], [348].
Landlords,
absentee, [184], [191];
of the fourteenth century, [48];
new class of, [59];
houses of the [103] (see Cottages);
improve estates, [132], [162], [224], [232], [255], [268], [320];
protectionists, [160-1];
ignorant of estate management, [175], [193], [249], [281];
in nineteenth century, [265], [281], [304], [307], [309], [320-2];
position, weakened, [309];
relations of, and tenant, [218], [226], [282-3], [299], [301], [322];
suffered most from present depression, [320];
reserve sporting rights, [115];
take to farming, [182].
Landlordship, [6].
Lawes, Sir John, [275], [276], [314], [319].
Lawrence, John, [152], [165], [166], [167], [173], [337].
Laxton, Notts, [22].
Leases,[45], [56], [57], [65], [81], [97], [113], [115-6], [121-2], [178], [218], [219],
[263n.], [272], [282], [283].
Leicester sheep, [215-6], [235], [274], [275], [343], [344].
Leicestershire, [8], [78], [79], [120], [151], [172], [174], [214-6], [268], [306n.],
[309], [343].
'Lemmons', [93].
Leominster,
manor of, [18];
wool, [40], [171], [172n.]
Liberi homines, [7].
Liebig, [275], [276].
Lime, [112], [141], [177], [187], [197].
Limestone sheep, [344], [346].
Liming the land, [77], [113], [218], [219], [246], [300].
Lincoln
red cattle, [343];
sheep, [215], [235], [275], [288], [343], [344], [346].
Lincolnshire, [3], [8], [40], [99], [100], [103], [123], [151], [168], [172], [250], [252], [255],
[283], [306n.], [307], [318], [321].
Liquorice, [143], [191].
Liverpool,
apples at, [188];
wheat at, [185].
Liverpool, Lord, [232], [264].
Live stock,
depreciation of, [306], [330];
exports of, [325-6], [330];
number of (1877 and 1907), [333-4];
in England (1688), [155], [164];
duty on, repealed, [280].
Locusts in England, [185].
London,
affects wages, [205];
attracts country folk, [209], [210];
potato grown near, [106];
carrots grown near, [167], [168];
roads near, [222];
sheep and cattle driven to, [221].
Longhorn cattle, [167], [216-7], [233], [234], [274], [275n.], [336], [343].
Longmynd, [345].
Lonk sheep, [344], [346].
Lord of the manor, [6], [14], [19], [25], [42], [121], [127], [255];
small holder suffers at his hand, [121].
'Lord Wilton', [340].
Lucerne, [143], [167n.], [191], [201].
Luffenham,
South, [22];
North, [103].
Luxury, spread of, an, [243], [264].
Lyttelton,
Sir H., [145];
Lord, [183].
M
Macadam, [220], [223], [230].
Machinery, use of, [271].
Madder, [17], [143], [191], [194].
Maidstone hops, [171].
Maize, imports of, [262], [296], [313].
Mangolds, [237], [331-2], [333], [353].
Manor, regulations of the, [13], [99].
Manor, the typical, [14].
Manorial balance sheets, [26], [65].
Manorial system, [6], [7], [18], [24], [45], [76], [97].
Manors, [6], [7], [14], [18], [25], [42], [45], [65], [97], [99], [118].
Mansion house, [14], [50].
Manufactures, influence of, on wages, [284], [297], [315].
Manures, [113], [119], [136], [144], [150-4], [177], [178], [179], [187], [191], [197], [201],
[219], [221], [254], [275-6], [296], [299], [300], [304], [305], [314].
Manydown, Hants, [13].
Market gardening, [306], [308], [319].
Markham, Gervase, [127], [134-7], [146], [151], [171].
Marling, [77], [113], [183], [191], [197], [202], [219], [300].
Marshall, William, [188], [204], [207], [213], [222], [298], [314], [336], [338], [340].
Maryland, wool from, [328].
Mattocks for breaking clods, [129].
McCormick, [303].
McCulloch, [281], [324], [349].
Meadowland, [2], [19], [22], [40], [58], [155].
Meadows,
[16], [30], [73], [99], [100], [118], [124], [148], [253], [258];
value of, [40], [58], [115-6], [139], [231].
Meat, imports of, [161], [305], [325].
Medlars, [136].
Meikle, [230], [236].
Menzies, [236].
Merino sheep, [233], [328n.]
Messor, the, [13].
Middlesex, [41], [145], [306n.]
Midland counties,
enclosure in, [120];
sheep in, [216], [218].
Migration of labourers, [44], [158n.], [209], [238].

Milk, [63n.], [168] (see Dairy), [170], [205], [275], [297], [330].
Mill, suit of, [9].
Mills, excessive number of, [114].
Minimum wage proposed, [241].
Minister of Agriculture, [305].
Mixtil, or mastlin, or mesling, [9], [102], [125], [138], [207n.]
Moles, [114], [124].
Molton Market, [341].
Monasteries, [68], [81].
Money payments, [24], [27], [45], [56].
Mortimer abuses the law, [74].
Moryson, [102], [105], [122].
Mountain sheep, [344], [346].
Mowing corn,
Fitzherbert's advice, [84], [125], [135], [138], [199], [354];
machines for, [303-4].
Mowing grass,
cost of, [34], [44], [65], [71], [109], [138], [142], [348], [354];
Fitzherbert's advice, [84].
Mulberries, [15], [146].
Murrain, [13], [42n.], [68].
Mutton, price of, see Prices.
N
New world, influx of precious metals from, [89], [111].
New Zealand, wool from, [328].
Newark, [157].
Nitrate of soda, [276].
Non-intercourse Act of United States, [242].
Norden, Sir John, [127-8], [220].
Norfolk, [8], [40], [45], [63n.], [94], [96], [97], [167n.], [169], [170], [182], [217],
[224-8], [306n.], [308], [340].
Norfolk, or four-course rotation, [183].
Normandy, [338].
North,
difference of wages between, and South, [283-5];
superior thrift in, [207-8].
Northamptonshire, [8], [78], [79], [120], [151], [157], [172], [222], [306n.]
Northleach, rates at, [295].
Northumberland, [193n.], [256], [295], [303], [309], [346].
Norwich,

[169], [182].
Nottinghamshire, [8], [22], [78], [116], [144], [172], [237], [276], [283], [306n.], [308], [309].
Nowton, Suffolk, [57].
Nucleated villages, [5].
Nuts, [136].
O
Oak timber,
value of, [137];
Coke's, [225-6].
Oakham, [110].
Oats, [20], [33], [65], [91], [124], [135-8], [142], [155], [227], [305], [331-2], [353];
cost of growing, in 1770, [199];
produce, per acre, in 1712, [105n.];
in 1770, [197-9];
profit on, [180]. (See Prices.)
Occupiers of land, [355].
'Old Comely', [216].
Olives, [93], [136].
Onions, [143], [332].
Open parishes, [158], [284].
Oranges, [93].
Orchards, [17], [128], [131], [143], [186], [188], [255], [332];
seventeenth century, [135-6].
Owners and occupiers, percentage of, [334].
Owners of Land, return, [260-1].
Owners, small, see Holders, small.
Ox teams, [16], [31], [64], [84], [143], [147], [153], [191], [204], [340].
Oxen,
description of, in 1592, [104];
value of, [19], [20], [35], [57], [66], [114]. (See Cattle, price of.)
Oxford, [63], [273], [338].
Oxford Down sheep, [275], [288], [344], [345].
Oxfordshire, [24], [40], [78], [99], [145], [151].
P
Pack-horses, use of, [138].
Packing fruit in seventeenth century, [129], [130].
Paring and burning, [141], [153].
Parsnips, [143].
Pasture, breaking up, [218].
Pasture,
common, [2], [4], [16], [19], [73], [99], [113], [195];
often worth little, [256];
permanent, in Holdings Act, [299];
extent of, in 1688, [155];
in 1770, [196];
ploughed up during French War, [243];
sparing, [124].
Pasture land, price of, [41], [59], [115-7], [139].
Patents, [113], [236].
Peaches, [15], [93], [136].
Pears, [15], [93], [130], [131], [136], [143], [329], [333].
Peas, [33], [69], [124], [155], [200], [227], [331-2], [353].
Peasants' revolt, [60].
Peel's drainage loans, [272].
Penalty for breaking up pasture, [178].

Perry, [130].
Pestilences, [38], [42], [68], [79].
Piecework, [28], [163], [206].
Pigeons, number of, [49], [96], [105], [143], [244], [274], [275].
Pigs,
export of, [330];
feeding, [16], [125];
foot-and-mouth disease attacks, [290];
import of, [326];
number of, [333-4];
profit on, in 1763, [200];
size of, in 1592, [104];
value of, [20], [35n.], [96], [200-3];
varieties of, [170], [346].
(See Prices.)
Pinchbeck, [103].
Pitt, William, [238], [239].
Plat, Sir Hugh, [127], [152].
Plattes, Gabriel, [76], [127].
Pleuro-pneumonia, see Cattle plagues.
Plot, [145].
Plough, eleventh- and twelfth-century, [17].
Ploughing,
cost of, [33], [65], [135], [141], [177], [179], [246];
months for, [17], [124].
Ploughland, the, [16], [18].
Ploughs and ploughing, [65], [83], [113], [125], [129], [135], [143], [150],
[153], [177], [191], [203], [217], [218], [225], [273], [342], [354].
Plums, [15], [93], [130], [131], [136], [329], [332].
Poaching, [48];
by labourers, [55], [210], [248], [282], [291].
Population of England, [79], [89], [111], [120], [140], [156], [160], [163], [211], [240], [287].
Pork, price of, see Prices.
Porter, 'Progress of Nation,' [276], [279], [286], [287].
Portugal, exports to, [349].
Potatoes, [106], [107], [112], [187], [191], [194], [227], [318], [331-3], [353];
disease, [277].
Poultry, [41n.], [66], [80], [132], [169], [170] (see Prices);
carrying, to London,[171].
Praepositus, [12].
Precarii, or boon days, [9].
Precious metals,
influx of, [89], [111];
scarcity of, [66n.]
Prices:
Apples, [15], [65], [188], [189].
Bacon and pork, [96], [102], [238], [239], [263], [313], [334].
Barley, [20], [35], [69], [114], [133], [138], [142], [155], [179], [223], [247],
[312], [347], [350-3].
Beans, [35], [155], [180], [347].
Beef, [96], [102], [114], [164], [206n.], [239], [240], [241], [242], [247], [262], [263], [265].
Bread, [206n.], [207n.], [223], [230], [242n.], [280], [285], [286], [291].
Butter, [33], [66], [114], [206n.], [241], [247], [285-6], [312], [334], [347].
Carts, [203].
Cattle, [19], [20], [35], [41], [65], [89], [105], [114], [119], [133], [146], [163], [165n.],
[167], [169], [203], [235], [263], [307], [312], [347].
Cheese, [173-4], [206n.], [241], [242], [312], [334], [347].
Clover, [166].
Eighteenth century, [145], [160], [163], [164], [165n.], [166], [167], [169], [170],
[172], [173-4], [179], [180], [186], [188], [189], [200], [203], [206n.], [222], [223], [227],
[229], [230], [231], [237], [238], [239], [240], [285], [341], [355].
Fifteenth century, [40], [66], [69], [355].
Fourteenth century, [39], [40], [41], [59], [65], [327], [355].
Flax, [152].
Grapes, [144].
Harness, [203].
Hay, [157], [165n.], [166], [241-2], [262], [347].
Hops, [87], [89], [150], [247], [298], [330], [347].
Horses, [19], [20], [35], [36], [114], [142], [165n.], [203], [347], [355].
Horse-shoes, [96].
Implements, [83], [138].
Malt, [89], [240], [241].
Milk, [168], [170], [312].
Mutton, [96], [10-2], [206n.], [239], [240], [241], [247], [262], [263], [265], [313], [334].
Nineteenth century, [227], [235], [240], [242-4], [245], [247-8], [262], [263], [264-6],
[267], [277-81], [285], [287], [293], [295], [296], [305], [306], [307], [312], [324],
[329], [330], [334].
Oats, [20], [35], [69], [114], [138], [155], [180], [223], [241], [312], [347], [350-3].
Peas, [69], [155], [200], [247].
Pedigree cattle, [234], [235].
Pigs, [20], [41], [96], [200], [203], [347].
Potatoes, [106].
Poultry and eggs, [41], [96], [114], [133], [170], [247], [347].
Rabbits,[174].
Rams, [202], [215], [235].
Rollers, [203].
Rye, [4], [16], [91], [125], [133], [138], [155], [347].
Saffron, [106].
Seventeenth century, [89], [110], [111], [114], [118], [119], [127], [133-4], [138],
[142], [144], [146], [150], [152], [157], [159], [160], [328], [355].
Sheep, [20], 3511., [36], [41], [80], [114], [138], [165n.], [203], [206n.], [263],
[312], [347].
Sixteenth century, [80], [87], [89], [95], [96], [102-6], [109], [355].
Straw, [179], [180].
Tenth century, [19].
Thirteenth century, [33], [35], [39], [355].
Twelfth century, [20].
Vetches, [155].
Waggons, [203-4].
Wheat, [20], [35], [66], [69], [89], [110], [114], [133], [134], [138], [142], [155],
[157], [160], [163], [164], [179], [186], [223], [231], [237], [238], [239], [240],
[241], [242-4], [247-8], [262], [265], [277-8], [281], [293], [306], [312],
[334], [347], [350-3], [355].
Wine, [145].
Wool, [39], [40], [80], [89], [96], [114], [118], [119], [142], [163], [172], [173],
[223], [239], [242], [285-6], [306], [312], [327], [328], [329], [347].
Prickly comfrey, [237].
Proclamation as to wages and prices, [42].
Production, increased cost of, [295], [313].
Prosperity,
agricultural, [28], [101], [114], [103], [183], [210-1], [229], [243-4], [246],
[264], [287];
during French War, [243-6], [247], [264].
Protecting fruit from blight, Sec., [187].
Protection,
effect of, [250], [278-9], [281];

highest limit of, [248]; [265], [266], [277-9].
Provender rents, [6].
Pruning fruit trees, [131], [136].
Pulverization of soil, [175].
Q
Quarter Sessions, assessment of wages by, [108].
Quartly, Francis, [341].
Quiet Emptores, statute of, [29].
Quinces, [15], [136].
Quit, notice to, [300], [301], [302].
R
Rabbits,
rearing, [174];
reserved to landlord, [115].
Railway rates, [295-6].
Rake, horse, [304].
Raleigh introduces potatoes, [106].
Rams,
ewes to, [126], [138];
price of, [202], [215], [235].
Ramsey, [72].
Raspberries, [331].
Rates, [229], [238], [241], [245], [247], [248], [249], [255], [269], [284], [295], [296],
[307], [314].
Rathgib, Jacob, [104].,
Reaping,
cost of, [34], [44], [65], [71], [109], [110], [138], [177], [179], [180], [246], [348], [354];
machines, [303-4];
time for, [124];
versus mowing corn, [135].
Red Polled cattle, [343].
Reeve, [12];
duties of a, [17].
Reigate, Flaunchford near, [64].
Rents:
Twelfth century, [27].
Thirteenth century, [36], [57], [75], [348].
Fourteenth century, [40], [41], [46], [65], [75], [348].
Fifteenth century, [57], [58], [66], [348].
Sixteenth century, [66], [76], [95], [115], [116], [348].
Seventeenth century, [115], [116], [117], [127], [133], [139], [143], [155], [161],
[348], [354].
Eighteenth century, [116], [177], [179], [183], [189], [193n.], [224], [227], [328],
[348].
Nineteenth century, [243], [246], [248], [264], [266], [278], [285-6], [287], [297],
[304], [306-9], [310], [319n.], [321-2].
Repairs, see Buildings, farm.
Restrictive covenants, see Cultivation clauses.
Revival, recent, in agriculture, [320].
Revolt, Peasants', [60].
Revolution, agricultural and industrial, [162].
Ridges, high, [129], [175].
Rinderpest, see Cattle plagues.
Riots, [185], [223], [262], [366],
Ripon, [147].
Roads, [21], [68], [105], [138], [171], [175], [182], [204], [210], [219], [220-3], [269],
[274], [295].
Rock and Far Forest district, [318],
Rogers, Thorold, [107], [229].
Roller, farm, in seventeenth century, [135].
Rolling, [166], [194].
Romney Marsh sheep, [344].
Romsey Abbey, [15n.]
Roots, few, used for cows, [200] (see Turnips).
Roscommon sheep, [343].
Roses, [143].
Ross, John, of Warwick, [76].
Rot, see Sheep rot.
Rotation of crops (see Four-course and Three-field system) [225], [275].
Rothamsted, [275].
Roundsman system, [239].
Royal Agrlctttonal Society, [273-4], [281], [308].
Royal Society, helps agriculture, [114].
Russia,
imports rom, [323-4];
wool from, [328].
Rutland, [22], [102], [109], [110], [120], [134], [143], [151], [255], [268], [306n.];
Dukes of, [115], [286].
Rye, [4], [16], [91], [125], [133], [138], [155];
in Norfolk, [182], [276];
produce, per acre, in 1770, [197].
Rye-grass, [178-9], [218], [276].
Ryeland sheep, [344], [345], [346].
S
Saffron, [62], [106], [143], [167];
Walden, [106], [167].
Sainfoin, [112], [115], [143], [191], [194], [225], [331].
Saint Paul's, manors of, [16], [29], [50], [57], [58].
Sales, famous, [234n.], [235], [338], [339].
Salt, value of, [26].
Samford Hall, [190].
Scotland,
cattle of, [336], [343];
wheat crop in, [332n.]
Scott, Reynold, [89], [151].
Scottish cattle, [168-9].
Scudamore, Lord, [132], [338].
Seasons,
bad, [20], [42n.], [66], [69], [89], [115], [157], [179], [184], [185], [186], [210],
[223], [224], [237], [239], [242], [243], [247], [262], [265], [277], [292], [293],
[294], [295], [297], [305];
good, [239], [244], [262], [266], [287].
Seed,
amount of, for wheat, [33], [67n.],[84], [177], [179], [180], [227], [246];
for clover, [112], [166], [176], [218];
clover, price of, [166].
Sefton, Lord, estate of, [320n.]
Selions, [318].
Self-binding reaper, [304].
Seneschal, [12].
Settled Land Acts, [305].
Settlement, law of parochial, [157-8], [209], [238], [269n.], [284].
Settlements, family, [123], [259-60].
Seventeenth century, characteristics of, [111].
Sheaf-binding apparatus, [237].
Shearing sheep, [125].
Sheep, [94], [104], [126], [137], [146], [161], [200], [225], [233], [236], [263], [274],
[275], [288], [290];
diseases of, [84];
export of, [326], [330] (see Live stock);
improvement of, [37], [164], [202];
number of,
in 1867, [288];
in 1877 and 1907, [333-4];
price of, see Prices;
varieties of, [171], [172], [215-7], [233], [235], [275], [288], [343-6];
washing, cost of, [65], [125], [354].
Sheep-rot, [184], [242], [265n.], [294].
Shepherd, wages of, [61], [71], [87], [109].
Shire horse, [35], [335];
Society, [335].
Shoeing, [36], [65], [84], [203].
Shorthorn cattle, [167], [225], [233-5], [274], [288], [336-8], [339], [342].
Shows, Agricultural, [233], [273-5], [341].
Shropshire, [11n.], [16n.], [159], [173], [219], [220], [225], [250], [339];
sheep, [275], [288], [344], [345], [346].
Siberian Railway, [324].
Sicks, uncultivated patches, [99n.]
Sinclair, Sir J., [229], [230], [232].
Sittingboume, [128], [143].
Sixteenth century, character of, [89].
Slaves, [8], [11], [20].
Smith, Adam, [134], [210].
Smith of Deanston, [214], [271-2].
Smithfield, [168], [169];
cattle show, [218], [273], [339];
prices at, [239], [240], [241], [247], [265].
Smyth, John, [111].
Society, Royal Agricultural, [193].
Society for Encouragement of Arts, &c., [194], [227], [303].
Socmen, [7].
Somerset, [19], [58], [107], [168], [250], [309], [340];
sheep, [344].
Somerville, Loid, [231].
Southams cattle, [342].
Southdown sheep, [217], [225], [233], [236], [263], [274], [275], [344], [345].
Spade, prejudice against, [112], [143];
for hops, [150].
Spain,
exports to, [349];
imports from, [323].
Spanish wool, [38-9], [328].
Speculation,
in land, [243];
in produce, [305].
Speenhamland Act, [237-8].
Spencer, Earl, [273].
Sporting rights reserved, [115].
Spraying fruit, [136].
Squatters, [220], [256].
Squire, the, [103], [128], [137], [140], [193], [211-2].
Stafford, Marquis of, [219].
Staffordshire, [3], [44], [78], [122], [219], [286], [295], [309].
Statesmen, [311].
Statistics, agricultural, [230], [231], [232], [277], [288] (see King, Gregory),
[331-2], [353].
Statute of labourers, [43].

Statutes quoted:
20 Hen. III. c. 4, [73].
25 Edw. III. 2. c. 1, [43].
34 Edw. III. c. 20, [63].
12 Ric. II. c. 4, [61].
12 Ric. II. c. 5, [64].
12 Ric. II. c. 6, [55].
13 Ric. II. c. 13, [55].
15 Ric. II. c. 5, [71].
17 Ric. II. c. 7, [63].
4 Hen. IV. c. 14, [67n.]
7 Hen. IV. c. 17, [70].
9 Hen. V. c. 5, [68n.]
3 Hen. VI. c. 2, [326].
3 Hen. VI. c. 4, [327].
4 Hen. VI. c. 5, [64].
15 Hen. VI. c. 2, [69].
23 Hen. VI. c. 12, [71], [87].
3 Edw. IV. c. 2, [70].
3 Edw. IV. c. 5, [71n.]
22 Edw. IV. c. 1, [71n.]
4 Hen. VII. c. 19, [79], [94], [117].
11 Hen. VII. c. 13, [325].
11 Hen. VII. c. 22, [87].
6 Hen. VIII. c. 3, [87].
6 Hen. VIII. c. 5, [79].
21 Hen. VIII. c. 8, [86].
22 Hen. VIII. c. 7, [326].
24 Hen. VIII c. 3, [102].
24 Hen. VIII. c. 4, [105].
24 Hen. VIII. c. 10, [82n.]
25 Hen, VIII. c. 1, [86].
25 Hen. VIII. c. 13, [80].
27 Hen. VIII. c. 6, [85].
27 Hen. VIII. c. 22, [94].
32 Hen. VIII. c. 13, [85].
I Edw. VI. c. 5, [326].
3 and 4 Edw. VI. c. 19, [86].
5 Edw. VI. c. 14, [86].
2 and 3 Phil. and Mary, c. 3, [96].
5 Eliz. c. 4, [107].
5 Eliz. c. 5, [105].
8 Eliz. c. 3, [326].
8 Eliz. c. 15, [82n.]
13 Eliz. c. 25, [96].
14 Eliz. c. 11, [82n.]
31 Eliz. c. 7, [121n.], [159].
39 Eliz. c. 1, [117].
39 Eliz, c. 2, [118].
39 Eliz. c. 18, [82n.]
43 Eliz. c. 2, [296].
1 Jac. I. c. 18, [150].
21 Jac. I. c. 28, [118n.]
12 Car. II. c. 4, [161].
13 and 14 Car. II. c. 18, [326], [327].
14 Car. II. c. 12, [157].
15 Car. II. c. 7, [134], [326].
18 Car. II. c. 2, [161], [326].
22 Car. II. c. 13, [326].
32 Car. II. c. 2, [161], [326].
3 W. and M. c. 2, [158].
8 and 9 W. and M. c. 30, [158].
7 and 8 Wm. III. c. 28, [327].
36 Geo. III. c. 23, [238].
41 Geo. III. c. 109, [231-2].
9 Geo. IV. c. 60, [278].
4 and 5 Wm. IV. c. 76, [269].
6 and 7 Wm. IV. c. 71, [270].
5 Vict. c. 14, [278].
9 and 10 Vict. c. 22, [280].
9 and 10 Vict. c. 23, [280].
14 and 15 Vict. c. 25, [301].
30 and 31 Vict. c. 130, [292].

38 and 39 Vict. c. 92, [299].
43 and 44 Vict. c. 47, [303].
46 and 47 Vict. c. 61, [300].
59 and 60 Vict. c. 16, [314n.]
63 and 64 Vict. c. 50, [301].
1 Edw. VII. c. 13, [314n.]
6 Edw. VII. c. 56, [301].
7 Edw. VII. c. 54, [316].
Steam,
applied to threshing, [237];
cultivator, [304].
Stilton cheese, [173-4].
Stinting the common pasture, [4].
Stock and land leases, [57].
Stocking a farm, [170], [203].
Stores, public grain, [133], [264].
Stott, the, or affer, [35], [57], [65].
Stourbridge Fair, [171], [172n.]
Stratfieldsaye, [272].
Straw,
as winter food for cattle, [126], [217];
carrying off, [178], [219], [302];
price of, [179], [180], [330].
Strawberries, [15], [329], [331].
Stubble, grazing of, [4], [125].
Suffolk, [8], [30], [40], [57], [63n.], [78], [112], [128], [147], [166], [168], [170],
[173], [174], [188], [207], [225], [238], [284], [306n.], [309], [313];
Punch, [335];
sheep, [275], [344], [345].
Supplies of com per head, [330] (see Wheat, home supplies).
Surrey, [64], [128], [143], [144], [168], [180], [283], [306n.]
Surveyor, the seventeeiith-century, [127].
Sussex, [54], [78], [259], [263], [283], [306n.];
cattle, [274], [288], [336], [340], [343].
Swanage, [262].
Swedes, [227], [237], [276], [288], [331-2], [333].

'Swing' riots, [266].
T
Taltarum's case, effect of, [122].
Tamworth pigs, [346].
Taunton,
manor of, [18];
good fanning near, [128].
Taxes, [247], [263-4], [307], [310];
weight of, [183], [191], [229], [245], [246], [249], [250], [263], [320], [321].
Tea,
drinking, [205], [207], [213], [291];
price of, [205].
Teams, composition of, [16].
Telford, [220], [222].
Tenant farmers,
assist in agricultural progress, [162];
number of, [141], [156];
origin of, [46], [119].
Tenant-right, [283].
Teeswater cattle, [337].
Tewkesbury, [255].
Thatchers, [139], [354].
Thomson of Banchory, [276].
Thorney and Woburn estates, [321].
Three-field system, [4], [99].
Threshing,
cost of, [34], [44], [65], [163], [179], [180], [198-9], [246];
machine, [230], [236-7], [282];
time for, [17], [126].
Tillage,
decrease of, [79], [80], [94];
encouragement of, [79], [108], [117-8];
reaction against, [118].
(See Arable, and Grass.)
Timber (see Oak timber), [227];
spoils crops, [282].
Tiptree, [319].
Tithe,
dispute, [102];
on turnips, [166];
rent charge, [270].
Tithes, [116], [144], [151], [189], [195], [230], [332], [247], [248], [249], [250],
[270], [305], [307].
Tooke, [179], [266].
Tours, Young's, [190], [192].
Towns, movement of rural population towards, [64], [70], [108], [185], [192],
[195], [209], [315], [316-7].
Townshend, Lord, [163], [182-3], [192], [193].
Treatise on Husbandry, [33], [54].
Tull, Jethro, [152], [163], [174-7], [178], [180], [183], [193], [200-1], [204].
Turkeys, [170].
Turkish dominions, imports from, [323].
Turnip cutters, [276].
Turnip fly, remedies for, [166].
Turnips, [93], [111], [112], [115], [141], [143], [157], [164], [166], [168], [178], [183],
[251], [331-2], [333];
cost of growing, in 1770, [198];
injure wool, [329];
sheep first fattened on, [112];
spread of, in eighteenth century, [165], [166], [179], [191], [194], [200],
[201], [225];
varieties of, in 1720, [165].
Tusser, [63], [90], [91], [92], [101], [102], [105], [111], [124], [126].
Two-field system, [3].
'Twopenny', [216].
U
Underwood, value of, in seventeenth century, [137].
Unions, Agricultural Labourers', [291-2].
United States, see America.
Unreasonable disturbance, [302].
Upwey, [318].
V
Vanghan, Rowland, [132-3].
Vegetables, [15], [93], [106], [112n.], [143], [236n.]
Ventnor, vineyard at, [145].
Vermin, destruction of, [82], [100], [244].
Vermuyden, Cornelius, [123].
Vetches, [125], [155], [331].
Village, the, of the eighteenth century, [164].
Village smith, the, [35].
Villeins, [6], [7], [8], [18], [24], [29], [42], [45];
disappearance of, [46], [59], [60], [105].
Vills or villages, [2], [5], [7], [15], [98], [119].
Vineyards, [15], [16], [111], [144-5].
Virgate, [8].
Virginia,
potatoes from, [106];
wool from, [328].
W
Wages:
Twelfth century, [27].
Thirteenth century, [27], [28], [34], [348], [355].
Fourteenth century, [27], [28], [41], [43], [59], [61], [62], [348], [355].
Fifteenth century, [67], [71], [348], [355].
Sixteenth century, [67], [87], [348], [355].
Seventeenth century, [119], [138], [139], [348], [355].
Eighteenth century, [163], [164], [184], [203], [205-6], [210], [237],
[238], [240], [285], [348], [354-5].
Nineteenth century, [241], [242], [249], [267], [268], [283-4], [285], [290-2], [297],
[309], [311], [312], [313], [315], [355], [356].
Wages,
on a farm in 1805, [247];
regulated by statute, [43], [61], [71], [87];
by Justices, [107], [109], [110].
Waggons, [153], [204].
Wainage, [8].
Wales, cattle of, [167], [336], [338], [343].
Wallachia and Moldavia, imports from, [323].
Walsingham states demands of villeins, [60].
Wars, effect of, [38], [68], [71], [193], [205], [212], [229], [237], [260], [286], [287], [341].
Warwickshire, [40], [77], [78], [94], [110], [172], [173], [213], [215], [216], [272], [282],
[290], [306n.], [309], [343].
Waste land, [231];
committee on, [255n.], [256];
good crops from the, [119];
Young and, [191].
Water carriage, cheapness of, [21], [173].
Weaning lambs, time for, [125].
Weaving, [70], [76], [110], [257].
Webster of Canley, [216].
Weeding hook and tongs, [84], [152].
Weeds, [125], [180], [201].
Week work, [8].
Welsh mountain sheep, [344], [346].
Wensleydale sheep, [343], [345].
Westcar of Creslow, [339].
Westcote, [128].
Westmoreland, [216], [295], [346].
Weston, Sir R., introduces clover, [111], [127], [141].
Weyhill Fair, [172].
Wheat,
acreage tinder, in 1907, [331-2];
consumption of, per head, [279];
cost of growing, [177], [180], [198], [199], [246], [307];
crops, [33], [67], [77], [91], [129], [142], [155], [165], [179], [180], [197-9], [227],
[246], [282], [285], [286], [332];
cultivation of, [4], [16], [32], [36], [113], [125], [135], [177-9], [180], [184], [353];
different kinds of, [146], [107];
home supplies of, [277], [279], [313], [330];
price of, see Prices.
White, Gilbert, [223].
Wilton, hops near, [171].
Wiltshire, [143], [174], [253], [268], [283], [286], [309], [312], [313];
sheep, [345].
Winchelsea, Lord, [255], [257], [268].
Winchester, [147], [150].
Wine, [144-5].
Wire binder, [304].
Wirral, [66].
Wisbech, [318].
Woad, [17], [152].
Women, work of, on the farm, [62], [85], [206], [316].
Wood, W. A., [304].
Woods, [2], [16], [59], [74], [78], [115], [125], [136], [155].
Woodstock, [53].
Wool, [37], [38-41], [69], [75], [80], [94], [104], [114], [118], [119], [142], [161],
[163], [171-3], [184], [223], [285], [329], [354], [355];
export of, see Exports;
import of, see Imports;
price of, see Prices.
Wool,
custom of picking refuse, [100];
storing, [125].
Worcestershire, [74], [128], [136], [143], [171], [306].
Work, hours of, [87], [147], [291].
Worlidge, John, [127], [131], [132], [142-8], [150-4], [165].
Worsley, Sir R., [145].
Y
Yeoman, the, [50], [71], [123], [128], [140], [156], [207], [258-61], [310], [320];
house of, [103].
Yeomen purchase lands of gentry, [122].
Yorkshire, [15], [78], [110], [138-9], [167], [168], [207], [225], [253], [283], [295],

[306n.],
[309], [337], [343], [346].
Young, Arthur, [160], [162], [163], [172], [180], [182], [188], [190-3], [194], [197], [200-6],
[210], [211], [222], [224], [230], [232], [236], [240], [253], [255], [257], [260], [284],
[285], [288n.], [298], [314], [317], [335], [336], [337], [343], [353], [355];
opposed to drilling, [178];
pet aversions of, [191];
statements of, as to growth of clover, [112].