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INDEX 



Walls, 24. 



Walpole, Sir Robert, a fanner, 173. 



Walsingham, Sir Francis, fond of 

 gardens, 101. 



Walter of Henley, on butter weights, 

 14 ; on rot in sheep, 15 ; on size of 

 the ploughlands, 21 ; on swine, 17 ; 

 on thistles, 11 ; on winter- keep, 13 ; 

 his work on Farming, 33, 90, 419. 



Walton-on-Thames, 120. 



Wandle, the, mills on, 309, 352. 



Wapping Marsh, drained by Cornelius 

 Vanderdelf, 115. 



Ware, a port, 276. 



Warping, introduced from Italy, 114. 



de la Warr, Countess, edits The 

 English Huswife, 422. 



Warwick, worsted industry at, 310. 



Warwickshire, Report on (Wedge), 

 236, 296, 314; (Murray), 236; 

 industries in, 310, 311 ; wages in, 

 314. 



Washbournes, sheaf of the, 32. 



" Wastell," 449. 



Wastes (and see Commons and En- 

 closure), 38, 72, 110 ; in eighteenth 

 century, 152 ; near London, 154 ; 

 tithes and, 343 ; on Hounslow 

 Heath, 122 ; in the Northern 

 Counties, 153 ; in Devonshire, 

 Cornwall, and Wales, 154 ; in the 

 West Riding, 226 ; near London, 

 154. 



Wat Tyler, 46. 



Water-carriage, 275 seq. 



Watling Street, 279. 



Watney, Dr., his milking-herds, 389. 



Watson, Bishop, on Westmoreland, 

 153 



Watt, James, 181, 206. 



Weather, the, great heat in 1757, 

 262 ; the price of corn and, 265 ; 

 winters of 1708-9, 1739-40, 1794-5, 

 262; 1874 onward, 376; 1891-4, 

 380. 



Weaver, the, 276. 



Webb, Jonas of Babraham, his South- 

 downs, 354. 



Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, on the 

 Assize of Bread, 448. 



Webb, William, quoted in King's 

 Vale Royal, 83. 



Webster, Mr., of Canley, his cattle, 

 187. 



Wedge, John, his Warwickshire, 236, 

 296. 



Wedge, Thomas, his Cheshire, 227. 



Weeds, and Weeding, 11, 94, 199, 

 386. 



The Weekly Miscellany for the Im- 

 provement of Husbandry, 364. 



Weights and measures, uniformity 

 recommended, 208. 



Welcombe, enclosure at, in 1614, 67, 

 68. 



Weld, 136. 



Welland, the, 116,276. 



Wellesbourne, Agricultural Labourers' 

 Union founded at, 410. 



Wellingborough, lace industry at, 

 310. 



Wellington (Somersetshire), woollen 

 industry at, 311. 



Wells, export of corn from, in eigh- 

 teenth century, 194 ; fair at, 31. 



Wells, Samuel, his History of the Bed- 

 ford Level, 116. 



Welshpool, navigation at, 276 ; 

 pastures at, 136. 



Welwyn, parish allowances stopped 

 at, 330. 



Wendover, 234. 



Wentwork, Lord Rockingham at, 207. 



West of England Bank, failure of the, 

 375. 



Westbury, common pastures at, 234. 



Western, Mr. Charles C., M.P., his 

 Speech on 1 March, 1816, 319. 



Westmoreland, Report on (Pringle), 

 295. 



Weston, Sir Richard, 90 ; advocate 

 of tenant-right, 113; on turnips, 

 134 ; canalizes the Wey, 107, 276 ; 

 on Sir Hugh Plat, 100, 107, 108 ; 

 his Discours of the Husbandrie used 

 in Brabant and Flanders, 108, 426. 



Wey, the, canalization of, by Sir 

 R. Weston, 107, 276 ; paper mill* 

 on, 309. 



Weymouth, the Black Death at, 40. 



Whalley, Maj.-Gen., 119. 



Wheat, prices of, from 1646-1911, 

 440, 441. 



Whey, 14. 



Whig, 14. 



Whitclyve Park, 44. 



" Whiteheads," 357. 



Whitstable, copperas works at, 309. 



" Whole place," 21. 



Wholesale trade in milk and corn, 

 rise of, 312. 



" Wiches " (salt) of Cheshire, 110. 



Wike, Lord Berkeley at, 32. 



Wilbraham, Roger, of Delamere, 71. 



Wilburton, 225, 245. 



Wildmore Fen, 245, 246, 250. 



William of Malmesbury, his de- 

 scription of Thorney, 116. 



William the Conqueror, and tithes, 

 337. 



Willis, Thomas, his De Fermentations, 

 131. 



