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INDEX 



Rigg, Mr. J. M., on Fitzherbert, 90. 



Rigs, 24. 



Rinderpest, the, 372. 



Riots, the " Rebecca," 282 ; of 1830- 

 31, 325, 330. 



Ripple, 229. 



Roads (and see Highways and Turn- 

 pike), 132 ; in Cambridgeshire, 

 244; in Devonshire, 204 ; in Essex, 

 192; in Hertfordshire, 190; in Ire- 

 land, 286 ; in Lancashire, 203 ; in 

 Leicestershire, 204 ; in Middlesex, 

 190; at Newport, 203 ; in Norfolk, 



279 ; in the North, 203 ; in Oxford- 

 shire, 204 ; in Scotland, 286 ; in 

 Suffolk, 192 ; in the Weald of Kent, 

 281 ; in Wiltshire, 233 ; by-roads, 



280 ; Commissioners in Scotland, 

 286 ; from Glasgow to Carlisle, 287; 

 the Great North Road, 282 ; from 

 Shrewsbury to Bangor, 284 ; to 

 Holyhead, 287 ; repair of, 285 ; a 

 religious duty, 280 ; road-rate in 

 1812, 321 ; Roman roads, 279 ; 

 under the manorial system, 280, 



281 ; in Tudor times, 281 ; under 

 Charles II., 283 ; under George II., 

 283 ; in 1770, 203 ; at beginning of 

 the nineteenth century, 285. 



Robinson, Ralph, shepherd to George 

 III. at Windsor, 196. 



Robson, James, of Belford, his 

 Cheviots, 354. 



Robynson, Ralph, translator of 

 Utopia, 420. 



" Rocket, the," 353. 



Rockingham, Lord, 207. 



Rodomel, 18. 



Rogation week, 6. 



Rogers, Thorold, his Six Centuries of 

 Work and Wages, 14. 



Rogues and vagabonds, 74, 76. 



Rollright, Fowler at, 187. 



Roman Catholicism, and agrarian dis- 

 content, 58. 



Romney Marsh (sheep), 178. 



Rooks, 93. 



Roses, Wars of the, 48, 50, 57, 75. 



Rossendale, 153. 



Roston Common, 227. 



Rot, the, 15 ; in 1735, 149 ; in 1830- 

 31,325; in 1879, 376; in Bedford- 

 shire, 241 ; in Cambridgeshire, 

 242 ; in Cumberland, 227 ; in 

 Gloucestershire, 230 ; in Oxford- 

 shire, 235, 236 ; on commons, 128, 

 156 ; remedies for, Hartlib's. Ill ; 

 Thomas Tryon's, 134. 



Rothamsted, 172, 366, 383, 385. 



Rothes, Earl of, grows turnips in 

 1716, 160. 



Rothschild, Lord, his milking herds, 

 389. 



Roundsmen, 329. 



Rous, John (1411-91), J^isioria Regum 

 Angliae, 60, 66. 



Roy, William, his Rede me and be nott 

 Wrothe, 63. 



Royal Agricultural Society, the, 359 

 seq. ; its foimdation, aims and 

 methods, 359 ; its Journal, 359, 

 370 ; its show at Gloucester in 

 1853, 369 ; at Oxford in 1839, 369. 



Royal Agricultural Benevolent Insti- 

 tution, the, 394. 



Royal Chemical Society, the, 366. 



Royal Society, the, 131. 



Rudge, Thomas, his Gloucestershire, 

 231, 294, 311. 



Ruffler, the, 76. 



Ruscam, Richard, editor of Leonard 

 Mascall, 136, 421. 



Rusden, Moses, his Further Discovery 

 of Bees, 430. 



Rush-bearings, 6. 



Russell, Lord John, and tithes, 344, 

 345. 



Russia, Emperor of, at Holkham, 

 221 ; hostility of, in 1800, 270. 



Russo-Turkish War, the, in 1877, 376. 



Rye, sown with wheat, 8, 93. 



Ryeland wool, 80, 98, 178. 



S. A., author of The Husbandman 

 Farmer and Grasier's Compleat 

 Instructor, 430. 



S. W., gentleman, author of The Com- 

 pendious Examination, 70, 420. 



Sables, 112. 



Saffron, 108, 136, 312. 



Sainfoin, 110, 136, 219. 



Salads, 102. 



Sale of Food and Drugs Act, the, 

 of 1899, 381. 



Salisbury Plain, 1. 



Salt, 366. 



Saltpetre, 366. 



Sand, sea, 10, 97, 109. 



Sandringham, Royal Farm at, 360. 



Sandwich, port of, 280 ; salt works at, 

 309. 



Sandys, Sir William, 276. 



Sankey Brook Canal, the, 277. 



Sarclers, 11. 



Savings Banks, 436. 



Sawbridgeworth, 384. 



Saxmundham, hops at, 193. 



Scab, the, 15, 95, 156. 



Scarifiers, 387. 



Schools and school hours, 391. 



Science, its benefits to agriculture, 

 385 seq. 



