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relieved of liability, 433 ; none to 

 be paid as out-relief, 437 ; report of 

 1834, 329, 431 ; of 1842-3, 408 ; of 

 1851, 434 ; Savings Banks, 436 ; 

 Settlement, the law of, 432, 434 

 seq. ; in 1388, 432 ; in 1795, 436 ; 

 Speenhamland Act, the, 436 ; 

 Stanleye's Remedy, 434 ; support 

 of the poor, distinguished from cost 

 of administration, 432 ; " Tenths 

 and Fifteenths," 431 ; tests, desti- 

 tution, 435 ; labour, 434 ; settle- 

 ment, 434 ; workhouse, 435 ; 

 abolished, 436 ; revived, 331, 408, 

 437 ; Unions, 435, 437 ; validi 

 medicantea, 74, 432, 434, 436 ; 

 voluntary pauperism, 435 ; wages 

 supplemented from the Poor Rates, 

 327, 328, 407 ; wars, of 1756-63, 

 435; of 1774-83, 435; wheat, 

 price of, 1755-64, 435; 1765-74, 

 435 ; work to be provided for able- 

 bodied poor, in 1547, 1576, 1597, 

 and 1601, 434 ; in 1782, 435. 



" Poor Tom," 76. 



Pope, Alexander, " among the 

 cabbages," 173 ; on " Turnip " 

 Townshend, 175. 



Population, agricultural, census 

 returns of, 394, (and Appendix 

 VII.); in 1888 and 1912, 399; 

 census of 1801 and 1811, 266; 

 corn-consumption of, 266, 267 ; 

 of home-grown and foreign wheat, 

 272 ; enclosure and, 60, 290 seq. ; 

 growth of in eighteenth century, 

 266, 435 ; in 1792 and 1815, 316 ; 

 of London, 146 ; status of (King's 

 estimates), in 1688, 146 ; estimates 

 of, by Finlaison, King, Smith, 

 Nicholls, and Porter, 266 ; Malthus, 

 397. 



Portbury, Lord Berkeley at, 32. 



Porter, George Richardson, a Free 

 Trader, 214, 272, 273 ; his estimate 

 of the population, 266 ; compari- 

 son between increase of population 

 and amount of home-grown wheat, 

 272 ; on importation of wheat, 

 214 ; his Progress of the Nation, 

 214, 266, 272, 316, 317. 



Portman, Lord, and tenant-right in 

 1843, 404. 



Portsmouth, price of wheat at, in 

 1813, 319. 



Potash, muriate of, 366. 



Potatoes, failure of, in 1812, 265 ; in 

 1816, 323; in 1877, 376; potato 

 famine of 1845-6, 274, 371 ; a 

 farm crop, 104, 108, 131, 135, 219, 

 265 ; on fen land, 131 ; on open- 



fields, not possible, 122 ; eaten with 

 butter and sugar, 135 ; potato 

 harvester, the, 387 ; paddle-plough 

 for, 369 ; at Holkham, 220 ; in 

 Lancashire, 194 ; in Shakespeare, 

 102 ; varieties of, 108. 



" Potts," 204. 



Poultry, 17, 106 ; modern develop- 

 ment of poultry farming, 383, 

 384. 



Pound, the, 19. 



Poverty, the problem of, in the 

 sixteenth century, 73, 74 ; (and see 

 Appendix II.). 



Powell, Robert, his Depopulation 

 Arraigned, 425. 



Power presses, 387. 



" Practice with Science," 348, 361. 



Pratte, William, 99. 



Prescriptive rights, non valent contra 

 rempublicam, 400. 



Preston, R., M.P., his Review of the 

 present Ruined Condition of the 

 Landed and Agricultural Interests, 

 319, 323, 328 ; his Further Observa- 

 tions on the State of the Nation, 319, 

 323. 



Preston, on the Ribble, 277. 



Price, John, his Herefords, 354. 



Price, Richard, his Observations on 

 Reversionary Payments, etc., 303. 



Prickly comfrey, 208. 



" Priggers," 76. 



Pringle, Andrew, his Westmoreland, 

 295. 



Pringle, Mr., introduces drilling at 

 Coldstream, 176, 177. 



Prized loaves, 450. 



Proclamation, Royal, of 1349, 41, 53. 



Property Tax, the, 321 ; for 1814, 

 321. 



Protection, small progress under, 370 ; 

 farmers reliance on, 349 ; led to 

 gambling in land, 371 ; can never 

 be revived so as to help corn- 

 growers, 383. 



Protestants, settled in the Fens, 119. 



Prussia, puts a heavy export duty on 

 corn, 270. 



" Pseudomisius," 427. 



Public duties of landowners, 400. 



Purchase by tenant, the lesser of two 

 evils, 402 ; loans from the State 

 for, 406 ; by public bodies, tithe 

 redemption and, 403. 



Purdy, Frederick, paper in the Journal 

 of the Statistical Society, for 1860, 

 470. 



Purification, Feast of the, 9. 



Purveyance and pre-emption, sur- 

 rendered by the Crown, 142. 



