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MAS 



Maslin, bread so called, 13 



Meat, prices of, in 1843-6, and 

 1870-3, 108 Twte 



Merton, statute of, authorises en- 

 closures, 19 ; re-enacted, 22 



3Ietayage, 228 



Molesworth (Lord) wishes to make 

 Tusser's poem a class-book, 30 



' Monday men ' tenants, 16 



Money systems of the principal 

 countries, 262 



Monks, practice of agriculture by, 

 14 ; drainage of fen district by, 

 34 



Moreton's leam, 35 



Moryson, his ' Itinerary ' quoted, 13 



NANCY, decision of the Agricul- 

 tural Congress at, 129 



Naseby, late survival of the com- 

 mon-field system at, 57 



New Zealand as an agricultural 

 labourers' settlement, 234 



Norfolk, Lord Townshend's agri- 

 cultural improvements in, 44 ; 

 roads of, 60; agricultural im- 

 provement of, effected by Mr. 

 Coke, 80 



Northumberland, farming in, 102 



ODAMS, manure of, 100 



Oxen, employment of, in farm 



work, 13 

 Oxgangs, 5 



PAEKES (JOSIAH), 98 



Pasture, first separation of, from 

 arable land, 3 ; tillage forsaken 

 for, 22 ; return to, 64 ; legislation 

 against farming, 246 



Peasant proprietors, condition of, in 

 France, 132 



— proprietorship means extinction 

 of Free Trade, 161 ; the agita- 

 tion for, 128; not capable of 

 flourishing universally in Britain, 

 131 ; socially advantageous, 138 ; 

 not to be established by legis- 

 lation, 139; incompatible with I 



PUN 

 the modern social system, 140 ; 

 co-exists with landlordism on 

 the Continent, 141 ; need of 

 State aid to, as shown in France, 

 148 



Peasantry, condition and obUga- 

 tions of, in feudal times, 9; im- 

 proved condition of, after 1350, 

 14 ; disastrous consequences of 

 sheep-farming to, 23 



Pickering, Vale of, late continu- 

 ance of the common-field system 

 at, 57 



Pightels, 5 



Plat (Sir Hugh) on the origin of 

 ' setting corn,' 100 



Plot, his 'Nat. Hist, of Oxford- 

 shire ' quoted, 10, 33, 45 



Ploughing in medifeval times, 10 ; 

 in Suffolk, 43 ; examples of 

 waste of power in, 61 ; by the 

 tail, 62 



Pole, local variations in length of 

 the, 4 



Poor law of 1733, 39; evils of the, 

 during the war period, 75, 224 



— rates, 202 sqq. ; tables of, 275 



Population, table of, in 1688, 259 



Prices, fall of, in 1819-22, 93 



Primogeniture, law of, 181 



Property in land, 125; duty of 

 the State to uphold, 147 ; how 

 to cheapen and facilitate the 

 transfer of, 182 



Protection, historical associations 

 of, 87, 163 ; encouraged gam- 

 bling, 105 ; wretched system of 

 farming under, 112; the creed 

 of a peasant proprietary, 161 ; 

 working of, abroad, 163 ; impos- 

 sibility of reviving, in England, 

 166; local taxation of , persisting 

 with Free Trade prices, 203 ; no 

 remedy for the present depres- 

 sion, 211 



Provisions, prices of, 281 



Prussia, agrarian legislation of, 

 142 ; land registration S3'stem of, 

 186 ; agricultural education in, 

 191 



Punches, Suffolk horses so called, 

 42 



