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INDEX 



Agricultural Returns, the (1866), 361. 



Agricultural Societies. See Societies. 



The Agricultural State of the Kingdom 

 in February, March, and April, 

 1816 . . . being the Substance of 

 the Replies to a Circular Letter sent 

 by the Board of Agriculture, etc., 320. 



Agricultural Statistics, 460 seq. 



Aire, the, 117, 277. 



Alcester, the needle industry at, 310. 



Aldsworth, 232. 



Ale, Assize of, 448. 



Alice Holt Woods, the, 391. 



Allen, William, his Landlord's Com- 

 panion, 262. 



Allotments, a benefit to the labourer, 

 409, 416 ; as compensation for 

 common-rights, often sold before 

 awarded, 408 ; The Labourers' 

 Union and, 410 ; and parish- 

 farms, 408. 



Allowances, Parish, 327, 436. 



Althorp, Lord, 208 ; on tithes, 345. 



America, corn from, after 1815, 271, 

 273 ; the Civil War in, 371 ; in- 

 crease of trade with, after 1815, 

 317 ; industrial collapse in 1873-4, 



375 ; influx of wheat from, in 1879, 



376 ; innovations from, 356 ; our 

 war with, 268. 



Amherst, Hon. Alicia. See Mrs. 

 Evelyn Cecil. 



Ammonia, sulphate of, 366. 



Andover, Edgar's ordinance at, 336. 



Angliae Notitia, 86. 



Anthrax, 386. 



Apathy of landowners at the present 

 day, 399-401. 



Appleby Stringbinder, the, 387. 



Apples, 136. 



Apprentices, Statute of (1563), 87, 

 88. 



Appropriators, ecclesiastical, 339, 

 340. 



" Apron-string " farmers, 348. 



Arab horses, 183. 



Arable land, converted to pasture, 

 42, 58, 59, 66, 72, 99 ; at Wei- 

 combe, 68 ; sheep on, 96 ; under 

 the Tudors, 121 ; in 1700, 154. 



Arbuthnot, John, his Inquiry into 

 the connection between the present 

 price of provisions and the Size of 

 Farms, 303. 



Arch, Joseph, 410 ; his evidence 

 before the Agricultural Commission 

 in 1881, 410. 



Argentina, meat from, 378. 



Arkwright, Richard, 181, 205. 



Armstrong College, 390. 



Artichokes, Jerusalem, 135. 



Artisan, the, his lot compared with 

 that of the labourer, 414, 415. 



Ashes, as manure, 110. 



Aspatria College, 390. 



Assart lands, 38, 55, 71, 72. 



Assize of Bread, 256, 448 seq. ; in 

 1497, 448; in 1710, 448, 449; in 

 1758, 449; in 1794-1812, 450; 

 in 1795, 451 ; in 1812, 450 ; in 

 1813, 451 ; in 1822, 451 ; in 1836, 

 451 ; discontinued in 1822, 256, 

 451 ; abolished finally in 1836, 451. 



Assized loaves, 450. 



Aston Boges, 6, 24. 



Atkins, Mr., of Clerkenwell, dealer 

 in refuse, 191. 



Attleborough, 240. 



Atwell, George, his Faithful Sur- 

 veyor, 428. 



Atwood, G., his Review of the Statutes 

 and ordinances of Assize, 1202-1797, 

 448. 



Augustine, tithes at the time of his 

 landing in England, 333. 



Austin, Ralph, his Treatise of Fruit 

 Trees, 427. 



Avers, 12. 



Avon, the, 276, 277. 



Awdeley, John, The Fraternitye of 

 Vacabondes, 76. 



Awre, Lord Berkeley at, 32. 



Axholme, Isle of, 114, 119, 247, 304. 



Aylesbury, Vale of, 198 ; farming 

 in 1770, 198. 



Ayrshire Herd-book Society, the, 373. 



Babraham, Sir H. Palavicino of, 114; 

 Jonas Webb of, 354. 



Bacon, Francis, on enclosures, 60 ; 

 on yeomen, 296 ; his love of 

 gardening, 101. 



Badgers, 264. 



Bagshot mutton, 178. 



Bailey, J., and Culley G., their Cum- 

 berland, 48, 226 ; their Northum- 

 berland, 111, 222, 226. 



Baize trade, at Coggeshall, 308, 

 309. 



Bakers' allowances under the Assize 

 of Bread, 448. 



Bakewell, Robert, 139, 149, 176, 177, 

 181, 354 ; account of him, 184 ; 

 his bankruptcy, 185; his canals 

 and irrigation, 184 ; his household, 

 185 ; his reticence and jealousy, 

 184; ploughs with cows, 184; 

 lets his rams, etc., 184, 186 ; gives 

 sheep the rot, 184 ; his experiments 

 with horses, 183, 355 ; with cattle, 

 187 ; with sheep, 186. 



Baldon, cottagers at, 300. 



