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,