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INDEX 



Smith, John, his England's Improve- 

 ment Revived, 429 ; possibly the 

 author of Profit and Pleasure 

 United, 429. 



Smith, Sir Thomas, his De Republica 

 Anglorum, 73, 85. 



Smithfield Club, the, 188. 



Smithfield Market, 188, 194. 



Smithsham, 26, 30. 



Smut, in wheat, 109 ; in barley, 

 386. 



Smyth, John, of Nibley, his Lives of 

 the Berkeleys, 32, 45. 



Snaggreet, 109. 



Snailwell, 245. 



Sneyds, the scythe of the, 32. 



Soap, soft, 386. 



Social gradations of the village in 

 former times, 412 ; cannot be re- 

 placed, 416. 



Socialistic legislation, 382. 



Societies, Bath and West of England, 

 209 ; Encouragement of Arts, 

 Manufactures and Commerce, 209, 

 219 ; Farmers' Club, the, 209 ; 

 Highland Society, the, 209; Im- 

 provers in the Knowledge of Agri- 

 culture, 173, 209 ; Smithfield Club, 

 the, 209 ; Society for bettering the 

 Condition and Increasing the Com- 

 forts of the Poor (1796), 408; 

 numerous agricultural societies in 

 the provinces, 209 ; numerous live- 

 stock societies of late years, 373, 

 384. 



Soda, nitrate of, 366. 



Soil, character of in various districts, 

 136 ; affects enclosure, 167 ; 

 Davy's lecture on, 217 ; science 

 applied to, 385 ; virgin, 1. 



"Soiling," 110. 



Soke of Peterborough, the, 244. 



Solar, the, 5. 



Soldiers, disbanded, 75. 



Somer, John, 99. 



Somerset, Protector, 59. 



Somersetshire, Report on (Billings- 

 ley), 232, 248, 294 ; balloting in, 

 26 ; fardels, 22 ; open-fields, 23 ; 

 industries in, 311. 



Soot, 10,95, 110,366. 



Southampton (Icknield Street), 279. 



Southerne, Edmund, his Ordering of 

 Bess, 106, 423. 



Southwell, out-door relief refused at, 

 330. 



Specialisation, in live-stock, 354. 



" Specimen," Jethro Tull's, 169. 



Speculation, in corn, 256, 273 ; in 

 land, 57 ; under the Tudors, 58 ; 

 in 1870, 375. 



Speed, Adolphus, his Adam out of 

 Eden, 111, 427. 



Speenhamland Act, the, 436. 



Spelman, Sir Henry, on lay rectors, 340. 



Spilsby, 153. 



Sprigge, Joshua, of Banbury, 124. 



Spurn Point, 153. 



Stafford, William (1554-1612), 70. 



Staffordshire, Report on (Pitt), 227, 

 294 ; industries in, 310, 311 ; land- 

 owners in, under Elizabeth, 85. 



Stage-coaches and stage-waggons, 

 282. 



Stamford, sheep at, 239. 



" Standing " house, at Berkeley, 45. 



Standish, Arthur, 59 ; The Commons 

 Complaint, 94, 424 ; on woodlands, 

 106 ; his New Directions, etc., 424. 



Stanley, his Remedy, 434. 



Starch, 254, 264. 



Starkey's Dialogue (1536), 59. 



" Statesmen," in Westmoreland, 295. 



Statistics of Agriculture, a much felt 

 want, 361. 



Statute, the, of Apprentices (1563), 

 87; of Labourers (1349), 41, 51; 

 of Merton, 38, 72 ; of Westminster, 

 38, 72. 



Statute labour, on the roads, under 

 the Tudors, 282 ; at beginning of 

 the nineteenth century, 285, 350 ; 

 abolished in Ireland, 286 ; in 

 England, 288. 



Steam, the advent of, 352, 369; 

 cultivators, etc., 369 ; diggers, 387. 



Steel springs on carriages, 283. 



Stephens, Henry, 361. 



Stephenson, George, 352. 



Stevenson, Matthew, his Twelve 

 Moneths, 427. 



Stevenson, William, his Dorsetshire, 

 233. 



Stillingfleet, Benjamin, his Observa- 

 tions on Grasses, 219. 



Stilton, and Stilton Cheeses, 187 ; its 

 toll-bar, 282. 



Stilt-walking in the Fens, 115. 



Stinted pastures, 36, 37,- 158, 18S. 



Stirling, Mrs. A. M. W., her Coke of 

 Norfolk and his Friends, 217. 



Stitches, 24. 



Stock, breeding, 176 seq. ; for the 

 butcher, 185 ; Thomas Coke and, 

 219 ; dead- weight of in 1710 and 

 1795, 188 ; estimate of, in England 

 and Wales, in 1688, 455 ; in 1696, 

 145; in 1837, 354 seq. ; in 1850, 

 371 ; in 1866-1911, 466, 467; in- 

 breeding of, 385 ; Mendelism, 385 ; 

 pedigree stock in 1837, 354, 372 ; 

 prices of in 1885 and 1890, 378. 



