INDEX 



487 



Labourers, agricultural, circum- 

 stances of, as compared with 

 artisans, 414, 415 ; condition of, 

 from 1760 onward, 407 ; from 1815 

 onward, 407 ; at the present day, 

 406, 407, 411 seq. ; distress in 

 early nineteenth centmy, 327 ; 

 extravagance of, 347 ; Federal 

 Union, the, 411 ; forecast of a 

 possible future, 416 ; no formula- 

 tion of general aims as yet, 411 ; 

 most important of the three agri- 

 cultural classes, 411, 417 ; paraded 

 by the overseers, 328 ; parlia- 

 mentary franchise obtained by, 

 411; pauper labour, 328; the 

 Agricultural Labourers' Union, 410. 



Labourers, Statutes of, 41, 51, 53. 



Labour market, the, 51, 52, 53, 67, 

 72, 75 ; under Elizabeth, 86, 87, 

 89; in eighteenth century, 148, 

 262 ; in nineteenth century, 349 ; 

 glutted at beginning of nineteenth 

 century, 317. 



Labour migrations, 300. 



Labour rents, 7, 35, 39, 48. 



Lambert, James, his Countryman's 

 Treasure, 429. 



Lammas Day, 9, 14, 25. 



Lammas Lands, 25. 



Lamond, Miss E., edits Walter of 

 Henley, etc., 419 ; The Compendious 

 Examination, etc., 420. 



Lamport, W. , Cursory Remarks on the 

 importance of Agriculture, 303. 



Lancashire, Report on (Holt), 295 ; 

 potatoes brought to, from Ireland, 

 135. t 



Land, acreage under various crops in 

 1808, 456 ; in 1866-1911, 464, 465 ; 

 distribution of, in 1660, 140 ; in 

 1827, 456 ; " fancy " value of, 321, 

 326 ; free and unfree, 6 ; profit- 

 able investment at end of eighteenth 

 century, 213, 220 ; suggested sur- 

 render of, in extinction of tithes, 

 403 ; of England and Wales, and 

 its products in 1688, 455. 



" Lands," 24. 



Land agents, rise of the profession, 

 151. 



Landed gentry, 141 seq. ; becoming 

 commercial, 144. 



Landmarks, removal of, 156. 



Landowners, duties of, 400 ; common 

 danger confronts to-day, 403 ; 

 relations with tenants in 1888, 394 ; 

 in 1893, 381 ; riiin of, in 1814-36, 

 321 seq., 326, 327 ; supine at the 

 present day, 399, 400, 401 ; far- 

 mers as, between 1813 and 1835, 



298 ; plentiful in some counties, 



293, 297 ; small, decline in niunbers 



after 1689, 292 ; at present day, 



396, 417. 

 Land shares, 24. 

 Land tax, rejected by the Restoration 



Parliament, 142. 

 Langland, William (Piers Plowman), 



49, 102, 156. 

 Lantchetts, 24. 

 " Large Letter, The " (of R. Child), 



109, 115, 119, 124, 126, 180. 

 Lark, the, 116. 

 Latimer, Hugh, 52, 62, 73 ; his 



sermons against commercial land- 

 owners, 144. 

 Latimers, the, 52, 296. 

 " Launchers," 24. 

 Laurence, Edward, his Duty of a 



Steward to his Lord, 151, 157, 298 ; 



on consolidation of farms, 298 ; on 



cow-dung as fuel, 198. 

 Laiu-ence, Rev. John, 154, 164 ; his 



New System, of Agriculture, 151. 

 Lauro, Pietro, translator of Columella, 



419. 

 de Laval Separator, the, 390. 

 Lavenham School, 195. 

 de Lavergne, M., 148. 

 Law Courts, extended jurisdiction of, 



54 ; venality of, 69. 

 Lawes, Sir John Bennet, 217, 366, 



367, 371, 385. 

 " Lawns," 24. 

 Lawrence, Anthony, and John Beale, 



Nurseries, Orchards, Profitable Oar- 

 dens, etc., 429. 

 Lawrence-Kennedy Milking Machine, 



the, 388. 

 Lawson, William, his New Orchard, 



180, 424. 

 Lawsons, the, Peter and Charles, 219. 

 Lea, the, 276. 

 Leadam, J. S., his Domesday of In- 



closures, 61. 

 Leaders, lack of, 139, 140. 

 Leamington, Congress of Agricultural 



Labourers' Unions at, 410. 

 Leases, in the eighteenth century, 200, 



201 ; at its close, 275 ; distrust of, in 



early nineteenth century, 325, 348 ; 



under Thomas Coke, 219, 220; 



fines for, 200, 201 ; terms of, 49, 69. 

 Lease-mongers, 73. 

 Leatham, Isaac, his East Riding of 



Yorkshire, 224, 239. 

 Leather, home-tanned, 29 ; the 



leather tax, 321. 

 " Leazes," 25. 



Lebotwood, dye-works at, 310. 

 Lechlade, a port, 276. 



