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INDEX. 



Eels, 



fresh and salt, prices of, 423. 



prices of, 363. 

 Eightendole, 



a local measure in East 



Lancashire, 3 .'3. 

 Election ram, 



the, at Eton College, 338. 



Elizabeth, 



offered the Dutch sove- 



reignty, i. 

 her peril in 1583, 3. 

 unable to do away with the 



effect of her father's fraud, 



!35. 



poverty of, 150. 

 Act of (1562), effects of, 



832. 

 England, 



divisions of, in Houghton's 



prices, 239. 

 its singular backwardness 



in arts and manufactures, 



458. 

 English roads, 



badness of, in the eighteenth 



century, 761. 



- East India Company, 

 its foundation, 149. 



Eringo roots, 

 price of, 465. 



Essex, 



assessment, 1651, purchasing 



power of wages under, 623. 

 assessment, 1 66 1, purchasing 



power ofwages under, 624. 



- Earl of, 



his fate, and the ingratitude 

 of those whom he be- 

 friended, 4. 



Eton College, 



purchase of sea-coal at, 387. 

 stone purchased at, 510. 

 cheapest table-linen at, 549. 

 wages at, low, 630. 

 cost of carriage to, by 



wherry, 757. 

 costs of carriage to, 766. 



- brick, 

 kinds of, 531. 



- timber, 

 purchases of, 520. 



European empire, 

 universal, dread of, 2. 



Exchange, bills of, 



their fluctuations, 781. 



Exchanges, foreign, 



means by which precious 



metals are obtained, 128. 



their effects on currency, 



779- 

 Excise, 



adoption of, by Parliament, 



1 60. 



an octroi duty, 164. 

 charge of, on cloth, 578. 

 Exiles, 



the Stewart, their greediness, 

 16. 



F. 



Factories, Eastern, 



mismanagement of, 139. 

 Faggot-making, 



wages of, 649. 

 Faggots, 



prices of, very various, 393. 



different kinds of, 650. 

 Fallows, 



got rid of by artificial grasses 



and roots, 62. 

 Famine, 



a cause of the poor perish- 

 ing, 97- 



causes of, 784. 



rents, 



characteristics of, 802. 

 Famines, 



in the first half of the seven- 

 teen century, 795. 

 Farm, 



of 200 acres, produce of, 816. 

 profits, 



in seventeenth century, 816. 

 Farmer, 



day of, according to Mark- 

 ham, 54. 



English, 



conditions of, in the seven- 

 teenth century, 8 1 8. 

 Feathers, 



prices of, 741. 

 Fenugreek, 



price of, 464. 

 Fertility, 



special, of certain parts of 

 England, 44. 



what it really is, 99. 

 Feudal dues, 



at the Restoration, how 



disposed of, 162. 

 Fiddles, 



price of, 746. 



Fieldfares, 

 prices of, 370. 



F'gs, 



dry and blue, 464. 



Files, 



prices of, 68 1. 

 Finance, 



its origin in the Civil War, 

 159- 



during the Commonwealth, 



161. 

 Financial system, the English, 



crude, 168. 

 Fines, 



uncertainty of, an agricultural 



grievance, 59. 

 on leases, 



nature of, 808. 

 Fire-irons, 



purchases of, 694. 



place, 



in hall, 684. 



wood, 



prices of, 392. 



Fish, fresh-water, 



kinds of and prices of, 423. 



Fitzherbert, 



on exactions of landlords, 

 803. 



Flanders, 



agriculture in, 57. 

 Flannel, 



price of, 579. 



Flax, 



price of, 319. 



price of (Houghton), 752. 



Flemings, 



immigration of, 66, 137, 



55. 

 Fletcher of Saltoun, 



his views on labour, 662. 



Flower-pots, 

 price of, 747. 



Forest iron, 



probably Sussex, 479. 



Forks and rakes, 

 prices of, 678. 



Fowling, 



probably a common bye-in- 

 dustry, 371. 



Foxcombe, 



densharing at, 647. 



Foxes, 



price of, 747. 



