INDEX 



497 



Scot, Reginald, his Hop Garden, 92, 

 99, 421. 



Scott, Sir W., his Heart of Midlothian, 

 173. 



Scotland, Act of Union, and weights 

 and measures, 208 ; cattle of, 1 80 ; 

 duty-free corn in, 261 ; General 

 Enclosure Act for (1095), 160; 

 milk records in, 389 ; roads in 

 1803, 286; the " seven ill years," 

 261. 



Scottish farmers in 1700, 159, 160, 

 161 ; Jethro Tull and, 172, 173. 



Scragg, Thomas, liis drain-pipe 

 macliine, 364. 



Scrope, Poulett, on " lynches," 2 ; 

 his History oj Castle Combe, 43. 



Sea power, and the Corn Laws, 257, 

 258. 



Sedgmoor, 154, 232 ; draining, 233. 



Seebohm, on "lynches,"' 2; on 

 village communities, 4. 



" Selions," 24. 



Seneschals, 6. 



Seneschaucie, 13, 16, 419. 



Separators, 389. 



Serfs, 22. 



Service of villeins, 22. 



Settled Lands Act, the (1882), 379. 



Settlement, Law of, see Poor Laws. 



Severn, the, 276. 



Sexton's Mead, 26. 



Sha, J., his Plaint and. Easie Demon- 

 strations, etc., 427. 



Shaftesbvuy, industries at, 312. 



Shakespeare, horses in, 181, 182 ; his 

 types of vagabonds, 76 ; an open- 

 field tithe- owner, 68. 



Shalboum, Jethro Tull at, 170. 



Shalloon, 309. 



Shawe"s patent for manuring land 

 (1636), 104. 



Sheep, 15 ; under George III., 57 ; 

 in 1837, 354 ; in 1874, 373 ; in 

 Bedfordshire, 241 ; in Huntingdon- 

 shire, 238 ; in Lincolnsliire, 238 ; 

 in Worcestershire, 229 ; BakewelFs 

 experiments with, 186 ; lets his 

 rams, 186 ; carriers of manure, 27 ; 

 on commons, 27, 128, 150 ; dead- 

 weight of, 98 ; ewes milked in 

 Northumberland, 202 ; fanciful 

 points in, 179 ; improvements in 

 the eighteenth century, 177 seq. ; 

 Markham on, 138 ; Mascall on, 

 138 ; inethod of folding in Flanders, 

 110; Mortimer on, 138; under 

 open-field system, 95 ; shearings 

 at Holkham, 220 seq. ; at Woburn, 

 221 ; shearing-machines, 387; vari- 

 eties of , 138, 139, 178, 372. 



Sheffield, 277 ; steel industry at, 310. 



Sheffield, Lord, establishes an Agri- 

 cultural Society at Lewes, 209. 



ShepJierd, qualifications of, 16. 



Shepton Mallet, woollen industry at, 

 311. 



Sherwood Forest, 153. 



Shipton-on-the-Stour, 277. 



Sliire horses, 355. 



Shirley, Thomas, translator of Coch- 

 learia Curiosa, 429. 



Shirreff, Patrick, and pedigree corn, 

 354. 



Slioddy as manure, 366. 



Shorthorn cattle, 180, 187, 354. 



Shorthorn Society, the, 373. 



Shots, 24. 



Shrewsbury, turnpikes on the Bangor 

 road, 284 ; industries at, 310. 



Shrift districts, 336. 



Shropshire, Report on (Bishton), 

 228 ; (Plymley), 294 ; industries 

 in, 310. 



Silk, industry in Berkshire, 310; in 

 Coventry, 310. 



Silk- worms, 112. 



Silverdale slieep (Lancashire), 178. 



Sinclair, Sir John, President of the 

 Board of Agriculture, 196 ; his 

 notes on dead- weight of stock in 

 1795, 188; his ^Address to the 

 Society for the Improvement of 

 British Wool, 354 ; his State of the 

 Country in December, 181(i. 320. 



Single tax, the, 399, 403, 417. 



Site values, 399. 



Skeat, Prof. W. W., on Fitzherbert, 

 90, 420 ; on tramways, 351. 



Skelton, Jolin, his Ellinoiir Rumminq, 

 98. 



Skye, crofters in (1750), 28. 



Slate clubs, 414. 



Slater, Dr. Gilbert, his English 

 Peasantry and the Enclosure of 

 Common Fields, 1()4. 



Sleaford, 153. 



Small, James, of Blackadder Mount, 

 his ploughs, 202, 208. 



Small holdings (and see Small Land- 

 owners), 396 ; and tenant-right, 

 405 ; the Small Hoklings Act 

 criticised, 415. 



Smith, Adam, and the Corn Laws, 

 272 ; and the price of wheat (1453- 

 1497), 448. 



Smitli, Cliarles, his Tracts on the Com 

 Trade and Corn Laws, 266 ; esti- 

 mate of population, 26(>. 



Smith, James, of Deanston, 363 ; liis 

 Remarks on Thorough Draining and 

 Deep Ploughing, 364, 



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