INDEX 



181 



Ownership, early forms of, 7 ff., 15, 



32, 42 

 Oxford, 50 



Oxfordshire, 5, 43, 113 

 Officials, manorial, 34, 37 



village, 13, 34 

 Overseers, highway, 91 



of the poor, 93, 129,144 



PARISH, civil, rise of, 70, 90, Ap- 

 pendix, 163 

 meetings, statutory, 160 



Peasant Revolt of 1381, 49, 51 f., 

 59 ff., 72 



Petersfield, 3 



Piers the Ploughman, 52 f. 



Pilgrim's Progress, 99 



Poaching, 130 f., 136, 141, 152 



Police, 102, 131, 152 



Political Register ; The, 143 



Poor Law, see Poverty 



Population, 28 f., 54, 133, 141 



Poverty and the Poor Law, 62 ff., 

 69 f., 83 f., 87 f., 90 ff., 93 f., 



102 ff., 107, 1 10, 123, 127 ff., 



136 f., 141 ff., 148 f., 152 f., 161 

 Praepositus, 34 

 Presbyterians, 92, 106 

 Priests, village, 12 f., 26, 31, 36 f., 



39, 63ff., 73, 153 

 Provosts, 34 

 Puritans, 69, 98 ff. 



QUAKERS, 106 



RADMEN, 21 



Railways, 120, 148, 155 f., 161 



Rates, 69,112, 129 f., 138, I4i,i43 



159 



Reeves, 13, 26, 34, 36, 64 

 Rents and their variations since 



1790, 134, 136 ff., 146, 158 ; 



Appendix, 166 



Rents, provender, see Tribute in 



food 

 Retainers in XVth century, 74, 81 



93 



Riots, see Disorders 

 Risings of 1830, 136, 141, 143 ft'. 

 Roads, 2, 30 f., 65, 70 f., 90 f., 



104 f., 109, iigff., 152, 154 f., 



1 60 



Roman Catholics, 92 

 Romans, I, 2,9, 12, 121 

 Rotation of crops, 5, u, I5f., 78, 



97, 114, ii6f., 138 

 Rothamsted, 147 

 Royal Agricultural Society, 147 



Ordinance, 56 ; Appendix, 167 

 Royston, 140 

 Rulers' rights over land, &c., 7 ff., 



17, 20 



SABBATARIANISM, 99 

 St. Albans, 60, 139 

 Salisbury', Marchioness of, 140 

 Seebohm, F., 23 n. 

 Seneschal, 33, 38 



Serfdom, before the Norman Con- 

 quest, 17, 22 



end of, 62, 66, 95 



and see Bondsmen 

 Settlements, land, 70, 96, 107, no, 



159 



parish, 93, 103 f., 127 f., 148 f. 

 Sevenoaks, 75 

 Sheep-farming in XIVth-XYIth 



centuries, 54 f. , 73, 78 ff. 

 * Shots,' 4f., 32 

 Shropshire, 52 



Slaves, 15,22, 25, 27ff., 34n., 35, 38 

 Small holdings, modern demand 



for, 159 ff. 

 Smith, Adam, 128 

 of Deanston, 147 

 Smithfield, 6 1 



