INDEX 



501 



166, 202 ; Flemish cultivation of, 

 107; in Hertfordshire, 191 Jetluo 

 Tull and, 172; opposition to, 134, 

 202 ; grown by the Earl of Rothes 

 in 1716, 160 ; in Shakespeare, 102 ; 

 in Suffoliv, 193 ; Towiishend and, 

 174 ; turnip weed and turnip fly, 

 386. 



Turnpike Acts, o"f 1728, 282 ; between 

 1760 and 1774, 284 ; between 1785 

 and 1800, 284 ; multiplication of, 

 284, 287. 



Turnpike Trusts, 203, 282, 287, 350 ; 

 difficulties of, 288 ; extinction of, 

 288 ; the Home OfHce and, 288 ; 

 the Rebecca Riots. 282. 



Tusser, Thomas, 9, 10, 14, 59, 105, 

 107, 112, 123, 124, 139, 156, 347 ; 

 on turnips, 100 ; his death, 107 ; 

 his Five Hundred Points, etc., 66, 87, 

 89, 91, 92, 93 se^., 421. 



Twemlow, F. R., The Twenilow.s, 71. 



" Two-penny,"" Bakewell's bull, 184. 



"Two-pounder,"" Bakewell's ram, 184. 



Tyndale, William, 62. 



Uley, out-door relief refused at, 330. 



Undeveloped land, duty on, 399, 416. 



Unearned increment, in the seven- 

 teenth century, 71. 



Unions, see Poor Laws. 



" Upright man,"' the, 76. 



Utopia, 61, 63, 75. 



Utrecht, the Peace of, turnips before, 

 135. 



Uxbridgo Road, the, in 1797, 190. 



Vagrants, 74, 76. 

 "Valentine's Day, St., 9. 

 Valuation, the, now in progress, 418. 

 Vanbrugh, Sir John, his Journey to 



London, 283. 

 Vancouver, Cliaiies, his Cambridge 



shire, 242, 244, 247 ; his Hampshire, 



237, 293. 

 Vanderdelf, Cornelius, 115. 

 Varro, 33, 99, 419. 

 Vaughan, Rowland, on irrigation, 



106 ; l)is suggestion adopted by 



Sir R. Weston, 107 ; his Water 



Workes. 424. 

 delaVega, G., 104. 

 Vegetables, in Tudor times, 101, 102. 

 Vermuyden, Sir Cornelius, attacked 



by Burr ell, 117; his Discourse 



touching the Draining of the Great 



Fennes, 116, 117, 425 ; the Bedford 



Level, 117. 

 Veterinary science, 385. 

 Via, the Roman, 279. 

 Vicars, 340. 



Victoria, Queen, agriculture during 

 the early years of her reign, 346 

 seq. ; and the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, 359. 



Villa, the Roman, 4. 



Village communities, 3 seq. 



Village farms, 6, 29, 38, 56, 71, 297 ; 

 Arthur Young on, 199 ; dis- 

 appearance of, 407. 



Villeins (and see Bondmen), 21, 22, 

 23, 52, 53 ; abolition of, 47. 



Vineyards, 18, 112 ; Jethro Tull and, 

 171. 



Virgates, 21, 22. 



Voelcker, 366. 



Voluntary pauperism, 329, 435. 



'" Vox populi vox Dei " (Ballad), 67. 



W. stamp on loaves, 450. 



Wadesmill, toll-bar at, 282. 



Wages, 40, 41, 313, 314; in the 

 eighteenth centurj', 148, 262 ; in 

 1812, 321; in 1813, 327; from 

 1815 onward, 407 ; in various years 

 between 1768 and 1910, 468 «eg. ; 

 not entirely represented by weekly 

 cash, 313, 407 ; Abstract of Returns 

 prepared by order of the Select Com- 

 tnittce on Labourers' Wages, 1825, 

 470 ; Berkshire, scale of, 327 ; 

 Board of Trade Report on (1900), 

 314, 470; corn, payable in, 51; 

 controlled by Justices of the Peace, 

 54, 86, 87 ; in England (1768-1910), 

 468 seq. ; in Essex, 314, 468; 

 extra allowances, 313, 407, 468 ; 

 minimum wages, under Elizabeth, 

 87 ; under James L, 104 ; re- 

 duction of, 328 ; supplemented 

 from the rates, 327, 407 ; in 

 Warwickshire, 314, 469 ; Returnaof 

 the Average rate of Weekly Earnings 

 of Agricultural Labourers, 1861, 

 1869, 1870, 1871, 1873, 470; Report 

 of the Royal Commission on Labour, 

 1891-94, 470 ; Reports fro7n Assist- 

 ant Com,missioners to the Royal 

 Commission on Agriculture, 1882, 

 470. 



Wakefield, clothing trade at, 277. 



Wales, \\'illiam, his Inquiry into the 

 Present State of Population in 

 England and Wales, 299. 



Wales, disendowment of the Church, 

 in, 402, 403. 



Walker, D., his Hertfordshire, 191, 

 238. 



Wallinby, Oliver, see William Ley- 

 bourn. 



Wallingford, 170. 



W^alloon settlement at Thorney, 115. 



