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INDEX 



Metheglyn, 18. 



Middle class, rise of the, in Tudor 

 times, 85. 



Middle horn cattle, 179. 



Middlemen, 73, 256. 



Middlesex, Report on (Middleton), 

 222, 237 ; (Foot), 237 ; and Hert- 

 fordshire compared, 190, 191 ; the 

 richest county, 146. 



Middleton, John, his Middlesex, 222, 

 237. 



Migration of labour, effected by the 

 Labourers' Union, 410. 



Milan decree, the, 270. 



Mildenhall, the, 116. 



Mildew, 109. 



Miles, Abraham, his Countryman's 

 Friend, etc., 428. 



Military tenure, abolition of, 141 seq. 



Milk, of ewes, 95, 202 ; milch cows, 

 388 ; milking machines, 388 ; 

 pedigree milkers, 389 ; milk re- 

 cords, 388, 389 ; the Sale of Milk 

 Regulations, 388 ; scarcer in vil- 

 lages than in towns, 415 ; wholesale 

 trade in, 312. 



Mills, 19, 29. 



Milton, John, his tract Of Education, 

 addressed to Samuel Hartlib, 108. 



Minster, the old, 336. 



Mirabeau, and Church lands, 395. 



Miscellin, 8. 



Mixtilio, 8. 



Moduses, 342. 



Moellenbrock, V. A., his Cochlearia 

 Curiosa, 429. 



Mole, mills on the, 309. 



Mole-heaps, 94. 



Molesworth, Lord, on Tusser, 91. 



Monastic establishments, 33, 67, 75 ; 

 and the Danish invasion, 334, 335 ; 

 dissolution of, 85, 89 ; in the Fen 

 lands, 116 ; and tithes, 333 seq. 



" Monday men," at Castle Combe, 

 43. 



Monmouth's rebellion, 140. 



Moor evil, the (on Otmoor), 235. 



Moore, Adam, his Bread for the Poor, 

 etc., 125 seq., 427. 



Moore, John, minister of Knaptoft, 

 his Crying Sin of England, etc., 125, 

 427 ; his Scripture word against 

 Inclosure, 125. 



Moore, Sir Jonas, his History of the 

 Great Level of the Fennes, 116, 430 ; 

 his England's Interest, etc., 430. 



Mops, 54, 88. 



More, Sir Thomas, his Utopia, 61, 

 63, 68, 75, 420. 



Morfe Common (sheep), 178, 228. 



Morning Chronicle. The, 370. 



Mortimer, John, his Whole Art of 

 Husbandry, etc., 131, 135, 137 ; on 

 cattle, 138, 180 ; on horses, 137 ; 

 on pigs, 139 ; on sheep, 138. 



Morton, John, Archbishop, his straw- 

 berries, 116 ; his " Learn," 117. 



Morton, John Chalmers, 361. 



Moryson, Fynes, his Itinerary (1617), 

 8, 9, 85. 



Mother churches, 333, 336. 



Motors, agricultural, 387. 



Mount Prosperous, Jethro Tull's 

 farm, 170. 



Muggs (sheep), from Northumberland, 

 178. 



Mulse water, 18. 



Mundesley, 51. 



Murrain, the, 16, 51, 53, 65, 73. 



Murray, Adam, his Warwickshire, 236. 



Muscovite Company, the, 79. 



Musk-cats, 112. 



Mutton, 178, 189 ; imports of, in 1882 

 and 1899, 378. 



Naphthalene, 386. 



Napoleonic wars, 268, 269 and passim; 



effect of, on trade, etc., 317 seq. 

 Naseby Field in 1770, 198. 

 National debt, the (1792-1815), 316. 

 National expenditure, (1792-1815), 



316; (1782-1792), 321; (1802-1812), 



391. 



National income, the, in 1688, 145. 

 Navy, Maintenance Act of 1562, 258 ; 



contracts in 1813, 319. 

 Nene, the, 116. 



Nettles, linen made from, 29, 30. 

 Neutral ships, corn in, seized, 265. 

 Newbury, industries at, 309, 310. 

 Newcastle, Duke of, his Methode et 



Invention Nouvelle de dresser lea 



Chevaux, 183, 427. 

 Newfoundland, nets for, made in 



Dorsetshire, 312. 

 Newington Butts, 24. 

 New Leicesters, 186. 

 Newmarket, races at, established by 



Charles I., 183. 

 Newport, Treaty of, 142. 

 Newspaper, the first agricultural, 133. 

 Newton, Sir Isaac, 107. 

 New Zealand meat, 378. 

 Nicholls, Sir George, his History of the 



English Poor Law, 266, 317 ; his 



estimate of the population, 266. 

 Nineteenth Century, The, for April, 



1889, article on An Agricultural 



Department, 400. 

 Noddel, 119. 

 Norden, John, his Essex described, 97, 



423 ; his Surveyor's Dialogue, 115, 



