CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION 



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Area of United Kingdom and Cultures ...... xxiii 



SPORTING Ancient To procure Food Chase- Use of Dog and Horse 



Anglo-Saxon Norman Forest Laws Game Vermin . . xxiii 



FISHING Early Times Food the Aim Rights Salmon and Fresh- 

 water Conservators Poaching ...... xxiv 



FORESTRY Area of Woods and Plantations Saxon Times Game 

 Afforestation State Forest Demonstration Catchment Areas 

 Deer Forests Game Hindrance ...... xxv 



FARMING Roman State of Britain at Roman Invasion Under Agri- 

 cola Anglo-Saxon Community of Anglo-Saxons Norman- 

 Feudal System Effects of Feudalism Ecclesiastics Tithes 

 Magna Charta . . . . . . . xxviii 



Sporting on own Land Town Charters Great Plague Statute of 

 Labourers Peasants' Revolt Freedom of Serfs Granted and An- 

 nulled by Richard III Chartered Guilds Sheep-rearing Wool xxxii 

 Reform versus Revolution Decline of Ecclesiastics First 

 English Treatise on Husbandry Tusser Revival of Forest Laws 

 Jethro Tull Drilling System , . . . . xxxv 



Poaching Increased Game Laws Relict of Forest Laws Impetus 

 given to Agriculture by Wars of French Revolution Game Cer- 

 tificate only Qualification to Kill Game on own Land- Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society Repeal of Corn Laws Free Trade. . xxxviii 



Landlords' Improvements of Estates Small Holdings and small 

 Farms Engulfed Agricultural Gang Act Inquiry into Game 

 Laws Agricultural Holdings Bill Passed for England and Scot- 

 land Crofters versus Deer Forests Small Holdings disappear 

 Depletion of Rural Districts Population Arable Land laid down 

 to Pasture . , . . . , , xxxix 



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