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,