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INDEX 



Paring land, 107. 



Paris green, 386. 



Parish allowances, see Poor Laws. 



Parish church, prima facie entitled to 



tithes, 338. 

 Parish farms and allotments, 408. 

 Parkes, Josiah, his mode of draining, 



364. 

 Parkinson, Richard, his Huntingdon- 

 shire, 244. 

 Parliament, and enclosure, 60 ; 



Government controlled by, 141 ; 



and Charles II., 141. 

 Parr, Dr. Samuel, attends Davy's 



lectures, 216. 

 Parret, the, 232, 276. 

 Parson's Acre, 26. 

 Parson's Close, 26. 

 Parson Drove, 245. 

 Parson's Green, George II. upset near, 



283. 

 Partageforct', the, 397. 

 Partnerships, agricultural, 3, 7, 20, 23, 



28, 36, 38, 56, 58, 105, 132, 154. 

 Partridge, John, his Treasurie of 



Commodious Concertes, 106, 422. 

 Paston Letters, the, 51. 

 Pastons, the, 51. 

 Pasture (and see Common Pastures), 



separated from tillage, 3 ; restored 



to tillage in Tudor times, 60, 61 ; 



pasture-area in 1871 and 1901, 378 ; 



improved treatment of, 384. 

 Patents, agricultural, 104 ; paucity of 



under the Commonwealth, 105 ; 



numerous between 1780 and 1816, 



208. 

 Paulet, Mrs. of Wymondham, her 



Stilton cheeses, 187. 

 " Pauls," 24. 

 St. Paul's Cathedral, chapter of, 



services on their manors, 11. 

 Pauperism, voluntary, 329, 330 ; 



pauper labour, 329. 

 » Pays de Caux, the, 5. 

 " Peace and Plenty," a mockery, 



317. 

 Peacocks, 17. 



Pearce, William, his Berkshire, 234. 

 Peasant homes, 5. 

 Peasant proprietors, 396, 397 (and 



see Small Holdings, and Land- 

 owners, small) ; demanded by the 



Labourers' Union, 410. 

 Peasants' Rising, the, of 1381, 42. 

 Peck loaf, the, 450. 

 Pedigree corn, 354. 

 Pedlars, 76, 284. 

 Peel, Sir Robert, and tithes, 344, 



345. 

 Pell, Albert, his Reminiscences, 405. 



Pennington, W., his Reflections on In- 

 closing Large Commons and Common 

 Fields, 303. 



Peony seed, adulteration with, 19. 



Pepys, Samuel, on the neglect of 

 agricultvire, 105. 



Peruvian guano, 366. 



Peterborough Fen, 243, 244. 



Petersen Separator, the, 390. 



Petty, Sir William, his Essays in 

 Political Arithmetic, 143. 



Petworth, Lord Egremont at, 207 ; 

 sheep-shearings at, 221. 



" Philo-Anglicus," his Bread for the 

 Poor, 429. 



" Philotheos Physiologus," pseudo- 

 nym of Thomas Tryon, 430. 



Pickering, Vale of, in 1787, 200, 292. 



Piers Plowman, see William Langland. 



Pigeons, 18. 



Pightels, 25. 



Pigs, colours of, 139 ; Leicestershire, 

 139, 168 ; Markham on, 139 ; 

 Mascallon, 139 ; Mortimer on, 139 ; 

 in 1837, 354. 



Pilgrim Fathers, the, 3. 



Pillory, the, 19. 



The Pioneers and Progress of English 

 Farming, 393 seq. 



Pitt, William, his Leicestershire, 237 ; 

 his Staffordshire, 227, 294. 



A Plan for relieving the Rates by 

 Cottage Acres, 298. 



Plat, Sir Hugh, his Arte of setting of 

 Come, 101, 423 ; his Jewel House 

 of Art and Nature, 100, 423 ; his 

 other works, 423 ; his farm at St. 

 Alban's, 101 ; on fattening poultry, 

 106 ; mechanical sowing, 171. 



" Plate-layers," 351. 



Plattes, Gabriel, his Discovery of 

 Infinite Treasure, etc., 123, 425 ; his 

 other works, 425 ; on the Vale of 

 Belvoir, 136 ; his mechanical sower, 

 104, 107, 131, 171; possible author 

 of Hartlib's Essay for Advance- 

 ment of Husbandry-Learning, 426 ; 

 his death, 107, 112. 



Playfair, Lord, editor of Liebig's 

 Organic Chemistry in its applica- 

 tions to Agriculture, 366. 



The Pleasant Land of France, 397. 



Pleuro-pneumonia, 372, 376. 



Plot, Robert, his Natural History of 

 Oxfordshire, 10, 430. 



Ploughs, cumbersome, 109 ; double- 

 furrowed, 109, 131 ; in Gloucester- 

 shire, 203 ; in Middlesex, 203 ; 

 Norfolk ploughs, 202, 208; "paddle- 

 ploughs " for potatoes, 369 ; 

 Rotherham ploughs, 202, 208 ; 



