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INDEX. 



Pilchards, 



apparently caught off Kent- 

 ish coast, 607. 



Pilcorn, or polscorn, 221. 



Pilgrimages, 

 frequent, 138. 



Pillory, 



cost of, 502. 



Pine, 



no kind indigenous in Eng- 

 land, 146. 



Pinguedo, 



prices of, 410. 

 probably sometimes a medi- 

 cated fat, 412. 



Piscaries, 



valuable kinds of pioperty, 

 608. 



Pitch, 



price of, 466. 



Plague, 



origin of, 8. 



losses by, 60. 



immediate effects of, to double 

 labour rates, 265. 



incidence of, least in thinly- 

 peopled counties, 266. 



effect of on labour of thresh- 

 ing, 270. 



description of, 292. 



effects of, 298. 



effects of en manufactures, 

 570. 



effects of on profits of agri- 

 culture, 667 sqq. 



Plants for garden, 428. 



Plasterer, 



wages of, 278. 



Plough, 



four horses or oxen to ; of 

 rude construction, 15. 

 parts of, 534. 



Ploughing, 15. 

 by acre, 

 payment for, 280. 



Ploughshares, 



various, winter and summer, 



J 5- 



kinds and price of, 536. 

 rent paid of, 536 note. 

 annual averages of, 554. 

 decennial averages of, 560. 



Ploughshoes, 



price of, 537. 



annual averages of, 554. 



decennial averages of, 560. 

 Plowman, Piers, 



his style popular, 688. 



Pole, de la, 



King's Exchanger, 179. 

 Police, 



effectual, 66. 

 of manor, 



character of, 128. 

 Pollards, 



generic name of foreign base 



money, 178. See 496. 

 Poll-books of eighteenth cen- 

 tury, 



evidence of change in the 

 distribution of land, 653 

 note. 

 Poll-tax, 



fairness of, 84. 

 Polver, 222. 

 Pomegranates, 



price of, 632. 

 Ponteland, 



proctors from, served in Lon- 

 don, 159 note. 

 Poor-law, 



effect of, on labourers, 262, 



692. 

 Poor-rate, 



apparent example of, 1 19, 262 



note. 

 Popes, 



power of, founded on intel- 

 ligible grounds, 134. 



lost their patriotism at Avig- 

 non, 152. 

 agents or nuncios of, 



payments to, 162. 



rate of, 163 and note. 

 Population, 



probable amount of, 57. 



rights itself after great losses, 

 61. 



chiefly engaged in agricul- 

 ture, 63. 



affected by scarcity, 292. 



righted itself after Black 



Death, 301. 

 Porculi = store-pigs, 



calculation on, 338. 

 Porter, 



"Progress of the Nation" 



referred to as to the condi- 

 tion of the working classes 



between 1 795 and 1815, 652, 



691. 



Portmanteaus, 648. 

 Poultry, 



kinds of, 32, 338. 



kept by peasantry, 339. 



average prices of, 356. 



decennial averages of, 363. 



Poultry rents, 



universal, 339 note. 

 Pound, Saxon, 



weight of, 165. 

 Prices, 



rise of, estimated in cor 

 180. 



rate of, in 1771, 692. 

 Priests, itinerant, 



agents of people, 95. 



popularity of, 96. 

 Prisoners, 



condition of, 118. 

 Proctors, 



payment to, 158. 

 Produce and acreage, 



amounts of, 38-45. 

 farm, 



low priced, 2 1 . 

 Production, 



rates of, 50-62. 

 Profit and loss account, 



Cuxham, 678, 680. 

 Profits of Agriculture befo 



the Plague, 670 sqq. 

 Property-tax, 156. 

 Proscription list of rebels, 91, 

 Fund, 



a weight peculiar to Susse 



410. 

 Purkiss, 



charcoal-burner in time < 



Rufus, 422. 

 Purses, 



prices of, 648. 

 Purveyance, 



incidence of, 67. 



right of, 119. 



o. 



Quart, 



measure of beer, peculiar, 1 2; 

 Quarterium of land, 73. 

 Queen's College, 



journey of provost of, f 



Avignon, 136. 

 Quia emptores statute, 



no impediment to grants i 



fee farm, 26. 

 Quickset plants, 428. 

 Quit-rents, 



important source of inconu 



26. 



Rabbits, 

 scarce, 33. 



