INDEX 



477 



Colucia, F., editor of Palladius, 419. 



Columella, 33, 99, 419. 



Combe, William, of Stratford-on- 

 Avon, 68. 



Comber, W. T., his Inquiry into the 

 State of National Subsistence, 266, 

 466. 



Comenius, Hartlib's translation from, 

 108. 



Commerce, rise of, 57 seq. ; under 

 Elizabeth, 79. 



Commination Service, curse in the, 

 157. 



Commissioners of Sewers, the (1630), 

 117. 



Commons, and Common-rights, 22, 

 27, 36, 37 ; commutation of, 67 ; 

 and enclosures, 71, 304, 305, 306 ; 

 compared with Fenlands, 118, 119 

 seq. ; and the Digger movement, 

 121 ; squatters, 126 seq., 152, 157, 

 158, 159 ; preserved as breathing- 

 spaces, 252 ; at Maulden, 416. 



Common pastures, 6, 26 seq., 36, 37, 

 72, 120, 157, 159 ; Timothy Nourse 

 on, 150 ; open-fields and, 224 seq. 



Commonwealth, distribution of land 

 under the, 140. 



Company of Adventurers, the (Bed- 

 ford Level), 117. 



Compendious or Brief Examination, 

 etc., by W. S., 70, 71, 73, 97, 122, 

 164. 



Compensation for continuous good 

 farming in excess of standard, 405. 



" Compostynge," 50. 



Compulsory, commutation of tithes. 

 344 ; labour on roads, 282 ; legis- 

 lation, advocated by Robert Child 

 (1655), 109; by Walter Blith, 114; 

 tenant right, 405. 



Confiscation of land, 395. 



Coningsby, 246. 



Consecration, secures tithes, 387. 



Consols, present low price of, facili- 

 tates tithe-redemption, 403. 



Constable's field, 26. 



Contagious Diseases of Animals Act, 

 the, of 1896, 381. 



Contract, freedom of, 54, 67 ; ex 

 adverse tenant-right, 405. 



Conygarth, the, 18. 



Coode, G., his Report in 1851, 434. 



Cook, Moses, his Forrest-Trees, 429. 



Co-operative societies, 417. 



Copper, for destroying charlock, 386. 



Copyholders, 23, 69 ; of inheritance, 

 70 ; under Elizabeth, 84. 



Coriander, in Essex, 193. 



Corn, bounties on exports, see Corn- 

 Laws (1697-1765), 452; consump- 



tion of, per person, 266, 267 ; con- 

 sumption of home-grown as com- 

 pared withpopulation, 272; England 

 profits by reason of, 262 ; export 

 duty in Prussia, 270 ; exports of, 

 in 1792, 268; in 1808, 268; 

 imports and exports (1697-1801), 

 452; (1765-1814), 267; imports 

 in 1741, 1757 and 1758, 261; 

 in 1715-1765, 263; in 1782, 267; 

 in 1796, 267 ; in 1875-6, 376 ; im- 

 portation of, Porter on, 214 ; 

 importation from France during 

 Napoleonic war, 269 ; French 

 demand for, in 1870-1, 371 ; House 

 of Commons Committee on the 

 Corn Trade (1814), 319; seed corn, 

 10, 94, 107; steeping, 107, 120; 

 Jethro Tull on, 170 ; self-denying 

 ordinances, 254 ; speculation in, 

 256, 273 ; wheat area in 1854, 371 ; 

 in 1871 and 1901, 378 ; wholesale 

 trade in, 312; yield per acre, 97, 

 98, 101, 107, 131 ; Thomas Coke, 

 319 ; in Cambridgeshire, 242 in 

 Gloucestershire (1790), 199; (1796), 

 232 ; in 1850 as compared with 

 1770, 371 ; in 1879, 376 ; prices of 

 (1453-1497), 448; in eighteenth 

 century, 148, 168, 210, 262; in 

 seventeenth and eighteenth cen- 

 turies, 254; (1646-1911), 440, 441; 

 (1715-1765), 259 ; (1742-1756), 263; 

 (1755-1764), 435; (1765-1774), 435; 

 (1765-1813), 264, 265 (the weather 

 and the war); (1782-1792), 321; 

 in 1800, 270; (1801-1810), 266; 

 (1802-1812), 321 ; (1811-1820), 266; 

 in 1812, 270; (1813-1816), 319; 

 in 1835, 274 ; in 1850, 371 ; effect 

 of peace of 1815 on, 271 ; sensitive 

 to harvests and weather, 254, 261. 

 Corn Laws, the (and see Appendix 

 III.), 210, 253 seq., 442 seq. ; seven- 

 teenth century, 143; (1689-1765), 

 260seq.; (1765-1815),263e?.: (1815- 

 1846), 255 seq. ; (1846-1849), 274; 

 Acts of Parliament, affecting the 

 corn trade, 442-447 ; aim of legis- 

 lation, 255, 256 ; Anti-Corn Law 

 League, the, 274 ; bounties, 257, 

 259, 260, 261 ; on exports (1697- 

 1765), 443, 444, 452 ; on imports, 

 265 ; suspended, 261, 264 ; cease 

 to be based on moral principles, 

 271 ; Colonial preference, 273 ; 

 commercial blockade during French 

 and American wars, 268, 269 ; 

 England remained dependent on 

 her own produce, 349 ; export 

 allowed by statute, 257 ; restriction 



