INDEX. 



849 



Viol, 



price of, 746. 

 Vitruvius, 



on hydraulic lime, 680. 

 Volunteering, 



in 1588, general, 736. 



W. 

 Wadham, Dorothy, 



wages of her architect, 631. 

 Wages, 



assessments of, 97. 



rate of, its interest in econo- 

 mical history, 610. 



in Midland and East, fifty 

 per cent, higher than in 

 the North, 632. 



rise in, 634. 



exceptional, 640. 



rise in price of, 792. 



difficulty of raising, 824. 



purchasing power of, 829. 

 and wheat, 



principle of, and tables of, 



825 sqq. 

 Waggons and wheels, 



prices of, 676. 

 Wainscot, 



prices of, 527. 

 Walnuts, 



price of, 322. 

 War with France and Spain, 



effect of, on prices of wine, 



444- 

 Warming-pan?, 



prices of, 725. 

 Warmth and light, 



artificial, rise in price of, 789. 

 Warwickshire assessment, 



purchasing power of wages 



under, 625. 

 Washing, 



done in College hall, 548. 

 Waste land, 



great amount of, 27. 

 Watches, 



prices of, 735. 

 Watering-pots, 



price of, 747. 

 Waterway, Thames, 



Acts of Parliament on, 774, 

 776. 



Wax, 



price of, raised during Laud's 

 ascendancy, 753. 



Houghton's prices of, 754. 

 Waynie timber, 519. 

 Weaving, 



in Lancashire and Yorkshire, 



586. 

 Web lead, 



purchases of, 486. 



Wedding-ring, 



cost of, 722. 

 Wedgebury coal, 



purchases of, 388. 

 Wentworth (Strafford), 



his policy, 9. 

 Westmeon, Hants, 



manufactures at, 725. 

 Westminster Abbey, 



repairs of, 481, 636. 

 Wheelbarrows, 



decennial averages of, 741. 

 Widgeon, 



prices of, 370. 

 Wigs, 



prices of, 731. 

 William III, 



unpopular, despite his great 



qualities, 20. 

 Winchester, 



stone purchased at, 510. 

 brick, 



kinds of, 531. 

 College, 



accounts of, lost, 172. 



name for hops at, 291. 



Fellows of, devoured oysters, 

 425,687. 



costs of carriage to, 766. 



and Eton, 



motive for appointing Head 



and Fellows at, 25. 

 Wine, 



produced in Kent, 58. 



kinds of and prices of, 442. 



occasional use of, 683. 



rise in price of, 794. 

 white, 



a kind of Bordeaux, 445. 

 Wire, 



price of (Houghton), 753. 



Wire, iron, 



prices of, 480. 

 Wiskets, 



a Lancashire word, prices of, 



744. 

 Women's labour, 



wages of, 642. 

 Woodcocks, 



price of, 369. 

 Wooden pumps, 



cost of making, 652. 

 Woodmen, 



wages of, 648. 



Woods, 



extensive, near Oxford, 519. 



Wool, 



a few prices of, especially at 



Eton, 406. 

 price of, probably stationary, 



407. 

 Woolfells, 



prices of, 410. 

 Woollen cloth, 



less frequent kinds of, 577. 

 Workmen, 



actual wages of and assess- 

 ment wages compared, 

 827. 

 Worlidge, 



his Systema Agricultural ,61 . 



Wren, 



his repairs of Westminster 

 Abbey, 604. 



Y. 



Yarn, Irish, 



price of, 747. 



flax and tow, 319. 



Yorkshire assessment, 



purchasing power of wages 



under, 619. 

 Young, Arthur, 



on Paris at the Revolution, 



on the price of meat, 335. 

 on the Act of 1589,615. 

 on wages of labour, 628. 

 prices given in his Tours, 



779- 

 on the landowners in the 



eighteenth century, 819. 

 on earnings and expenditure 



of labourers, 830. 



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