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INDEX. 



Dudley, Dud, 



the reputed inventor of cast 

 iron, 399. 



Dung pots and carts, 

 price of, 412. 



Dung spreading, 496. 



Dunkirk, 



capture of, its popularity, 



33- 

 Dunlings, 



price of, 344. 



Durham, 



See of, dissolved by North- 

 umberland, 31. 



Dutch, 



first used hops, 546. 

 Indian commerce of, causes 

 of, 656. 



E. 



Eastern counties, 



prices of malt and barley, 

 cheap in, 212. 



England, 



use of paper in, 590. 



produce, 



whence distributed, 150. 

 rise of, 1521-40, 656. 



Edmondsbury, 



abbot of, hires an architect, 



503. 

 Education, 



among artisans, 402. 



Edward IV, 



his abilities, generosity, and 



errors of policy, 24. 

 his leniency, 180. 



Edward VI, 



ministers of, their character, 



3 1 - 

 Edward of Lancaster, 



birth of, 19. 



death of, 713 note. 



Eels, 



fresh and salt, by tale or 



barrel, 531. 

 Eggs, 



prices of, 357. 



Egrets, 



price of, 344. 



Egypt, 



the route of Eastern produce 

 through, 654. 



Elizabeth, 



indifferent to the recovery 

 of Calais, 33. 



Elizabeth, 



her great abilities, 34 sqq. 



statute of, fixing corn rents, 

 112. 



proclamation by, in 1563, 

 fixing rates of wages, 120. 



her reformation of the cur- 

 rency, 198. 



cost of housing, when an 

 infant, 509. 



her charters to the Levant 



Company, 667. 

 Ell, 



a usual measure, not distin- 

 guished from yard, 554. 

 Elms, 



price of, 446. 



Emancipation, 



probably purchased frequent- 

 ly in fifteenth century, 5. 



Enclosures, 

 value of, 54. 

 effects of, 499. 



England, 



how divided, in the Civil 



War, 1 8. 



poverty of, in sixteenth cen- 

 tury, 36. 



condition of, in fifteenth cen- 

 tury, according to Fortes- 

 cue, 748. 

 English, 



dirty habits of, 105. 



glass, 451. 



'English Policy, Libel of/ 

 its contents, 140. 

 authorship of, 533 note. 

 Entail, 



of large estates, not custom- 

 ary till War of Succes- 

 sion, 3, 21. 

 Erasmus, 



on the habits of the English, 



105. 

 works of, 60 1. 



Estrich board, 

 price of, 446. 



Europe, Western, 

 rise of trade of, 656. 



European produce, 

 rise of, 724. 



Ewes, 



price of, 339. 



Ewers, 



prices of, 610. 



Excises, 



origin and development of, 



744- 



Expenditure, 



of this period, character of, 



59- 

 Extra work, 



by hour, rates of, 510. 



F. 



Faggot-making, 

 by piece, 496. 



Faggots, 



prices of, and names of, 370, 



Fairs, 



use of, in middle ages and 



to recent times, 154. 

 west country, importance of, 



to recent times, 564. 



Fans, 429. 



Fardel, 



a measure of sail-cloth, 555, 



Farina, 



price of, 278. 



Farmer's outlay, 

 costs of, 741. 



Farming stock, 



amount of, in 1530, 63. 



Farm produce, 



prices of, 376-388. 



Fastolfe, Sir John, 



a great trader in barley and 



malt, 3. 

 his purchases of cloth, 106, 



565- 



wealth of, 146. 

 his books, 600. 



Fat, 



kinds of, and prices of, 363, 

 620. 



Fatt, 



of London, the, 204. 



Feathers, 



price of, 375. 



Fenwick, Sir John, 

 his attainder, 22. 



Ferrets, 



price of, 622. 



Fertility, 



agricultural, what it is, 749. 



solar, effect of, on price of 



salt, 391. 

 Fetterlocks, 424. 



Fifteenth century, 



decline of prices, except 



labour, in, 715. 

 beginning of, prices high at, 

 727. 



