840 



INDEX. 



Hay, 



prices of, 303. 



importance of, in the absence 

 of winter roots and arti- 

 ficial grasses, 305. 

 prices, 



caution in interpreting, 305. 

 Hazel nuts, 323. 

 Hearth-tax, 



statistics of, 77. 



origin of, 1 68. 



evidence from, 79^. 

 Hearths, 



in several counties, 1 20, 1 a I. 

 Hedging, 



wages of, 653. 

 Heming's Company, 



payments to, in 1604-5, 



687. 

 Hemp for navy stores, 



price of, 604. 

 fibre, 



price of, 319. 

 Hempseed, 



price of, 318. 

 Henley, 



originally the head of the 

 Thames navigation, 758. 

 Henry IV of France, 



his purposes, 2. 



Hens, 



prices of, 365. 

 Hereditary excise, 163. 



Herrings, 



red and white, prices of, 421. 



Hides, 



prices of, 411. 

 Hinges, 



price of, 683. 



Hippocras, 



purchase of, 449. 



Historical study, 



practical value of, 662. 



Holland, 



services of, to agriculture, 



64. 



debt of, in 1650, 141. 

 war of England with, in 



Cromwell s time, 143. 



Holywell, Oxford, 

 its liberties, 513. 



Homespun, 



a common product, 551. 



Honey, 



price of 319. 



Hooker, 



his viewson foreign Churches, 



32. 

 Hop-pickers, 



wages of, 658. 

 strainers, 



price of, 708. 

 Hops, 



English and foreign, 289. 



averages of, 301-302. 



prices of, yearly, 292-299. 

 Horse-cloths, 



prices of, 713. 

 Horses, 



kinds of and prices of, 344. 

 Hose, 



prices and kinds of, 73 3 

 Houblons, the, 



Flemings, 284. 

 Houghton, John, 



his Collections, 22. 



his register of corn prices, 

 236. 



his harvests, 240-254. 



his average prices of hay, 

 306. 



his prices of pork and bacon, 



.344- 



his coal prices and districts, 



.394- 



his wool prices, 414. 



his prices of metals, 499. 

 House of Commons, 



its grant for the King of 



Bohemia, 8. 

 Household servants, 



wages of, 659. 

 Hudson's Bay Company, 



its origin, 147. 

 Huguenots, 



immigration of, 148, 553. 

 Humbers or humberkins, 



price of, 707. 

 Hume, Joseph, 



his repeal of the Labour 



Acts, 613. 

 Hundred, 



of lime, its amount in Lon- 

 don, 516. 

 Hurdles, 



prices of, 680. 



I. 



Import duties, 



their effect on prices, 254. 

 Income, 



calculations of English, 94. 



Income-tax, 



of 1670, 166. 

 Incomes, 



King's tables of, 90. 

 India, 



first voyage to, 139. 

 Ireland, 



wrongs of, after the Revo- 

 lution, 20. 



cattle from, prohibited, 85. 



destruction of its manufac- 

 tures, 799. 

 people of, 



their experience of govern- 

 ment, 828. 

 Irish assessment, 125. 

 cottiers, 



famine-rents of, 802. 

 - difficulty in Elizabeth's 



reign, 4. 



woollens, 



exportation of, prohibited, 



96. 

 Iron, 



purchase of stocks of, 478. 



kinds of, 479. 



price of (Houghton), 752. 

 old, 



prices of, 481. 

 tires, 



prices of, 677. 

 Isinglass, 



price of, 464. 



J- 

 Jacks, cooking, 698. 



leather, 



prices of, 695. 

 Jamaica, 



acquisition of, 144. 

 James I, 



his theology, his title, and his 



character, 5. 

 progress of English trade in 



reign of, 129. 

 duties on tobacco levied by, 



468. 

 said not to have washed 



himself, 548. 

 James II, 



his deposition analogous to 



that of Richard II, 1 7. 

 Joiner, 



wages of the, 639. 

 Joint-stock enterprise, 



peculiarly a growth of the 

 seventeenth century, 131. 



