INDEX 



473 



Balgrave, Joseph, his Epitome of 

 Husbandry, 428. 



Balks, 23, 24, 155, 156. 



Ballads, against enclosure, 62, 67. 



Balmoral, royal farm at, 360. 



Baltic, the. Government buys corn 

 in, 265 ; anticipated closing of, in 

 1800, 270; closed by Crimean 

 War, 371. 



Bamptons (sheep), 178. 



Banbury, a canal port, 277 ; cheeses, 

 136; industries at, 310; market 

 at, 222. 



Bangor, turnpikes on road to Shrews- 

 bury, 284. 



Banks, panics, 211 seq., 374, 375; 

 Bank of England, restricts its note 

 issue, 211; suspends payment, 212; 

 the Bank Restriction Act, 212. 



Bannockburn, Battle of, 160. 



Banstead mutton, 178. 



Barber's Furlong, 26. 



Barley, the drink-corn of the Middle 

 Ages, 9. 



Barnard Castle, tram at, 351. 



Barnes, William (the Dorset poet), on 

 commons, 305. 



Barren Lands Act, the, 343. 



Barrier Treaty, the, 173. 



Barton-upon-Humber, 153. 



Barton, John, his Observations . . . 

 on the condition of the Labouring 

 Classes, 320 ; his Inquiry into the 

 Causes of the Progressive Deprecia- 

 tion of Agricultural Labour, 320. 



Basic slag, 366, 384. 



Basildon, Jethro TulJ born at, 170. 



Bastard, Thomas, 62 ; his Chresto- 

 leros, 63. 



Batchelor, Thomas, his Bedfordshire, 

 242. 



Bates, Thomas, his Shorthorns, 354. 



Bawtry, a port, 276. 



Beaconsfield, Burke at, 208. 



Beale, John, his Herefordshire Or- 

 chards, 427. And see Anthony 

 Lawrence. 



Beaminster, industries at, 312. 



Beans, as food for slaves, 199. 



Beccles, hemp at, 136, 193, 309. 



Becon, Thomas, his Jewel of Joy, 62, 

 123. 



Bederepes, or Bedrips, 11. 



Bedford, Francis, 4th Earl of, 117; 

 William, 5th Earl of, 117 ; Francis, 

 5th Duke of, 207, 208 : his sheep- 

 shearings. 221 ; llth Duke of, his 

 Maulden scheme, 415, 416. 



Bedford Level, the, 111 seq. 



Bedfordshire, Report on (Stone), 

 241 ; (Batchelor), 242, 248. 



Bees, 18 ; in Stewart times, 106. 

 Beetle, a Dover-court, 10 ; a clotting, 



10. 

 Belgium, receipts per cultivated acre 



five times as large as Great Britain, 



401. 



Bell, Rev. Patrick, his reaping- 

 machine, 358. 



Bellers, John, his Proposal for Rais- 

 ing a College of Industry, etc., 



430. 

 Bellot, James, his Booke of Thrifte, 



419, 422; (of Caen), his Jardin 



de Vertu, 419. 

 Bells on teams, 205. 

 Belvoir, Vale of, the best corn-land 



in Europe, 136, 168. 

 Benese, Richard, his Boke shewing 



the maner of lande, etc., 420. 

 Berkeley, Lady Joan, 32, 33. 

 Berkeley, Estates, the, 10, 17, 18, 



31 seq., 45 seq. 



Berkeleys, the, 31, 32, 44, 45. 

 Berkshire, Report on (Pearce), 234 ; 



(Mavor), 293 ; industries of, 309 ; 



parish allowances in, 327, 436. 

 Berlin decree, the, 270. 

 Berthelet, Thomas, his edition of 



Fitzherbert, 90. 

 Best, Henry, 8 ; his Farming Book, 



84, 88, 91, 93, 106, 425. 

 Beverley, road from Hull to, 153. 

 Beverley reaper, the, 358, 369. 

 Beverston, Lord Berkeley's sheep at, 



45. 



" Billanders," 276. 

 Billingsley, John, his Somersetshire, 



232, 294. 

 Binders, 387. 

 Bingham, out-door relief refused at, 



330. 



Birmingham, yeomen seek employ- 

 ment in, 296 ; industries at, 310. 

 Bishop, the, his right to appoint to 



benefices, 338. 



Bishton, J., his Shropshire, 228. 

 Black Death, the, ^0 seq., 44, 52, 



65, 76. 

 Black Horse, the (and see Horses 



and Bakewell), 183, 184. 

 Black Mountains, the, in Hereford- 

 shire, 228. 

 " Black Prince of the North, the " 



(John Grey of Dilston), 318. 

 Blackstone, Sir W., on yeomen, 296. 

 Blakeney, export of corn from, in 



eighteenth century, 194. 

 Blandford, industries at, 312. 

 " Blind Jack of Knaresborough," 



284. 

 Blindness, in oats, 386. 



