Index. 



563 



Thompson, his catechiBm, 417. 

 Thornton, \V. T., 4,98. 

 Thrashing machine, expense of, 163. 

 Thrashing machine, invention of, 213. 

 Three-field system, 37G. 

 Tiberius Claudius, 17. 

 Tiers Btat, 392. 



Tillage by State compulsion, 207, 232. 

 Tillard, Richard, 21. 

 Timber, duty on, 62. 

 Timber, Praator's edict on, 38. 

 Timber, Solon on, 38. 

 Timothy grass, 2(13. 

 Tin-mining, 17. 

 Tithe wood, 44. 

 Tithes, Cobbett on, 478, 4S4. 

 Tithes, effects of enclosures on, 448. 

 Tithes in kind, objections to, 449, 450, 451, 452. 

 Tithes, laws on, 43. 

 Tithes, Mosaic law of, 455. 

 Tithes, plans for commutation and redemp- 

 tion of, 452, 453. 

 Toasting bread, custom of, 76. 

 Toisech, 6. 

 Tom Touchy, 87. 

 Tomb's garden, 48. 

 Topling's plan for the currency, 412. 

 Townshend, Lord, 89, 211, 257. 

 Trade, Board of, 456. 

 Tras choler, 59. 

 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 207. 

 Triple assessment, 183. 

 Truck Acts, 533. 

 Trnssler, Rev. John, 244, 257. 

 Tuath, 5. 

 Tucker, 215. 

 TuU, Jethro, 89, 92, 208, 210, 212, 235, 236, 239, 



246, 289, 291, 292, 328, 429. 

 Turkeys, trade in, 279. 

 Turn broaches, 75. 

 Turnip fly, 440. 

 Turnip, introduction of — 



In France, 327. 



In Scotland, 242. 

 Turnip, TuU's method of cultivating, 239. 

 Tnsser, 47, 257, 437. 

 Twenty-acre lots, 149, 150. 

 Twopenny, Bakewell's bull, 351. 

 Two-pounder, Bakewell's ram, 351. 



u. 



Ulysses, 47. 



Unearned increment, 481. 

 Union, system of, 307. 

 United Netherlands, 96. 



V. 



Value, theories in, 121. 



Van and Wheel Tax, 83. 



Vane, Georgius, 31. 



Vasco de Gama, 111. 



Vegetable Ufe, economy of, 290. 



Vegetius, 50. 



Venery or chase, beasts of, 40. 



Venetian constitution, 86. 



Verderers, 40. 



Vernal grass, 261. 



Vernon, Edward, 18. 



Verts for succour, 40. 



Vicar of Wakefield, 85, 



ViUiers, 416, 418. 



Viaus Franci Plegu, 71. 



Vitruvius, 50. 



Voluntary contribution, the, 181. 



w. 



Wages, assessment allotment of, 501. 

 Wages, sliding scale of, according to price of 



bread, 320, 533. 

 Wagons, 83. 



Wales, arable land of, 135. 

 Wales, Prince of, 3.i8. 

 Wallace, 114, 137, 148, 149. 

 Wallace, Dr. Alfred, 516. 

 Walpole, 171. 

 Walsingham, Lord, 358. 

 Ward, 422. 

 Warding by day, 74. 

 Warren & Skelton, Messrs., 18. 

 Warwick, Richard, Earl of, 18. 

 Waste, 32. 



Waste lands, area of, 227. 

 Wastes, enclosures of, and the labourers, 229, 



511. 

 Wastes, improvable area of, in different 



counties, 228. 

 Watches in the night, 74. 

 Watsons, 409. 

 Way leave, 31. 

 Weaving, 80, 



Wealth, prime source of, 117. 

 Wealth, public and private, 114. 

 Wealth, soil a source of, 113. 

 Webb, John, 60. 

 Webb, Jonas, 266, 267, 358. 

 Webster of Cauley, 264, 

 Wellington, 413. 

 Wenlock, Lord, 358, 

 West, Sir E., 126. 

 Westminster Committee of Correspondence, 



387. 

 Westminster Hall, 96. 



Westminster, notice of prices of bread, 321. 

 Weston, Sir Richard, 46, 53, 54. 233, 234. 

 Wethers, average weight of, 266. 

 Weymouth pine, 58, 60. 

 Wheat, cultivation of, 246. 

 Wheat, prices of, early in present century 



401. 

 Wheaten bread, 82, 203. 204. 

 Whickham, Manor of, 31. 

 Whitbread, S., 324, 502, 503. 

 Whitehead, 489. 

 Whitmore, 413, 414. 

 Wild of Sussex, 44. 

 Will Wimple, 87. 

 William of Orange, 9. 

 Wilson, 413. 

 Wilton, garden of, 48. 

 Wilts, rural economy of, 476, 

 Winchelsea, Earl of, 635. 

 Winchester market, 478. 

 Window Tax, 161, 172. 

 Winster, 19. 



Wirksworth Wapentake, 17, 18, 19, 21. 

 Woburn, 347, 429. 

 Wood, impendent, 38. 

 Wooded waste, changes in, 39. 

 Woodlands, acreage of English, 66. 

 Woodlands, valuing of, at Conquest, 39. 

 Woodmote, Court of, 40, 

 Woods, description of, by Strabo, 39. 

 Wood-stealers, punishment of, 39. 

 Woodward, 280. 

 Woodwards, 40, 



Woody ground, territories of, 40. 

 Wool, duties on, 192. 



