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INDEX 



Blith, Walter, his story, 113; his 

 English Improver improved, 91, 

 110, 113, 123, 426; on drainage, 

 112, 114, 118, 119, 120 ; on tenant- 

 right, etc., 113; advocates en- 

 closure, 113, 123, 165, 166; his 

 water level, 114 ; on extravagance 

 of farmers, 347. 



Blome, Richard, his Oentleman'a 



1 Recreation, 430. 



Blood, manurial value of, 110, 367. 



Bloomfield, Robert, his Farmer^ s Boy, 

 193. 



Bloxham, industries at, 310. 



Blundeville, Thomas, his Power 

 chiefysl offices belonging to Horse- 

 manshippe, 105 ; his translation of 

 Grisone's Arte of Ryding, 421. 



Blunt, Col., of Gravesend, ploughs 

 with one horse, 109. 



Board of Agriculture. See Agri- 

 culture. 



Board of Trade. See Trade. 



" Board " land. See Bord-Iand. 



"Bobbin" (Martha Ann Yoimg), 

 197. 



Bocking, industries at, 309. 



Bohemia, cattle plague originated 

 in, 149. 



Bolingbroke, at Dawley, 173. 



Bolymong, 11, 93. 



Bondmen, 20, 21, 40, 47, 52; at 

 Castle Combe, 43. 



Bones, imports of, in 1827 and 1837, 

 366 ; as manure, 366 ; Sheffield 

 Bone-dust, 194, 218. 



Boon-days, 48. 



Booth, Thomas and John, their 

 Shorthorns, 354. 



Bordars, 20, 22. 



Borde, Andrew, his Dyetary, 84, 100. 



Bordeaux mixtixre, 386. 



Bord-land, the, 6. 



Borlase, William (Cornish antiquary), 

 on the extravagance of labourers, 

 347. 



Boston, 276. 



Bosworth, Battle of, 57, 65. 



Bounties. See Corn Laws. 



Bovates, 22. 



Bow, Sir J. B. Lawes' works at, 367. 



Boys, John, his Kent, 293. 



Bradfield, home of Arthur Young, 

 195. 



Bradley, Lord Berkeley at, 32. 



Bradley, Prof. Richard, on English 

 horses, 183 ; on drains, 192 ; and 

 WorHdge's machine, 171 ; his 

 Complete Body of Husbandry, 134, 

 192 ; his Oentleman and Farmer's 

 Guide, 168, 183 ; his Survey of 



Ancient Husbandry, 419 ; edits 

 Houghton's Collection, 430. 



Brandersham, 26. 



Brandon, the, 116. 



Bread, Assize of, 256, 448 seq. 

 under Elizabeth, 84 ; pure, 132 

 " bread treet," 449 ; wastell, 449 

 white, 451 ; wheaten, standard 

 wheaten, and household, 450. 



Bredon, 229. 



Brent marsh, 232, 294. 



Bridges, legislation in Tudor times, 

 281 ; magistrates and, 281. 



Bridgnorth,' 228, 276. 



Bridgwater, Duke of, his canal, 278. 



BridUngton Quay, 153. 



Bridport, industries at, 312. 



Brigg, 153. 



Brillat-Savarin, 107. 



Brindley, James, 278. 



Brinklow, Henry, 62. 



Bristol, 276 ; Fruit and Cider In- 

 stitute at, 390. 



Broad ox-gang, 21. 



Bromwich, nail industry at, 310. 



Broseley, garden-pot industry at, 

 310. 



Brougham, Lord, his Speech on Agri- 

 cultural Distress (9 April, 1816), 

 320. 



Brouncker's ploughs, 104. 



Brown, Robert (farmer at Markle), 

 his West Riding of Yorkshire, 226, 

 251, 295. 



Brown, Robert (of Inverness), his 

 Letters on the Distressed State of 

 Agriculturists, 319. 



Brown, Thomas, his Derbyshire, 294. 



Buckingham, Duke of, his steward, 

 151. 



Buckinghamshire, Report on (James 

 and Malcolm), 234 : industries in, 

 309. 



Buckwheat, ploughing in, 95. 



Bullock's Hill, St. Faith's fair, 218. 



Burghley, Lord, fond of gardening, 

 101. 



Burial grounds, 335 ; and tithes, 336, 

 337. 



Burke, Edmund, his experiments in 

 carrots at Beaconsfield, 208. 



Burning land, 107. 



Burrell, Andrewes, his Brief e Relation, 

 etc., 116, 425; his discovery in 

 Wisbeach river, 116; his attacks 

 on Vermuyden, 117: his patent 

 draining machine, 104. 



Burslem wares, 276. 



Burwell Fen, 245. 



Bury St. Edmunds, manure from, 

 192. 



