INDEX 



503 



Wiltshire, Report on (Davis), 233, 

 248, 294, 300. 



Winchester measures, 209. 



Winchcomb fair, 31. 



Winchcomb, John (Jack of Newbury ), 

 80. 



Windsor, George III. 'a merino flock 

 at, 207 ; royal farm at, 360. 



Winstanley, Jerrard, 120 seq. ; his 

 Letter to the Lord Fairfax, etc., 120, 

 426. 



Winter-keep, 65, 95, 96, 99 ; turnips 

 as, 134 ; effect of scarcity of, 188. 



Wire for fencing, 387. 



Wisbeach, St. Mary, 245 ; boats 

 discovered at, in 1635, 116. 



Wiseton, 208. 



Wissey, the, 116. 



Witenagemot at Andover, in 970, 

 336. 



Witham, the, 276. 



Witney, blanket industry at, 310. 



Wiveliscombe, woollen industry at, 

 311. 



Woad, 108, 136, 312. 



Woburn, 207 ; fruit farm, 383 ; 

 sheep-shearings, 22 1 ; the Woburn 

 Wash, 386; Bordeaux mixture, 386. 



Wokingham, see Oakingham. 



Wolsey, Cardinal, 60. 



Wolves, extinct in reign of Charles 

 II., 152 



Women and children, employment of 

 in the fields, 408-411. 



Wontnersham, 26. 



Woodchester, Lord Ducie at, 172. 



Woods, destruction of, for fuel, 110; 

 enclosure of, 165 ; forestry on 

 commercial principles, 383. 



Woodstock, glove industry at, 310. 



Wool, burial in, in seventeenth 

 century, 142 ; decay of wool in- 

 dustry, 311 ; English wool, 15, 56, 

 59, 79 aeq., 98, 99, 177 aeq. ; export 

 and import of, 189 ; exportation 

 prohibited, 142 ; import duty 

 removed, 189 ; manufacture by 

 foreigners, 81 ; Markham on, 138, 

 139 ; from open-fields, 95 ; price 

 of, 142; in 1860, 371; in 1851 

 and 1864, 372 ; wool under the 

 Tudors, 56, 59, 79 aeq. ; in eigh- 

 teenth century, 177 seq. 



Wootton-under-Edge, industries at, 

 311. 



Worcester, glove industry at, 310. 



Worcester Priory, Registry of, 24. 



Worcestershire, Report on (Pomeroy), 

 229 ; clover in, 134 ; executions 

 in 1814-15, 323 ; industries in, 



Worgan, G. B., his Cornwall, 311. 

 Workhouse, the, see Poor Laws. 

 Worlidge, John, his Systema Agri- 



culturae, 91, 130, 134, 428 ; his 



other works, 428 ; his corn-drill, 



131, 171 ; on turnips, 134, 135. 

 Wotton, Lord Berkeley at, 32. 

 Wren-Hoskyns, Chandos, 359. 

 Wright, Thomas, his Monopoly of 



Small Farms a great cause of the 



present Scarcity, 298. 

 Writs and executions in 1814-15, in 



Norfolk, 323 ; in Suffolk, 323 ; in 



Worcestershire, 323. 

 Wychwood Forest, 235. 

 Wymondham (Leicestershire), 187 ; 



(Norfolk), 240. 

 Wynterton, 51. 



Yarcombe, 2. 



Yarland, 21, 22. 



Yarmouth, exports of corn from, in 

 eighteenth century, 194. 



Yarnton, balloting at, 26. 



Yarranton, Andrew, suggests a Land 

 Registry, 131 ; grows clover, 134 ; 

 his canal proposals, 277 ; his 

 Great Improvement of Lands by 

 Clover, etc., 428 ; his England's 

 Improvement by Sea and Land, 277, 

 428. 



Yeomen, under Elizabeth, 83, 85 ; 

 extinction of, attributed to en- 

 closure, 291, 292 ; meaning of the 

 word, 296, 297. 



York, a port, 276. 



Yorkshire, East Riding, Report on 

 (Leatham), 224, 239 ; North Rid- 

 ing, Report on (Tuke), 226, 296 ; 

 West Riding, Report on (Brown), 

 226, 251, 295. 



Youatt, William, 360. 



Young, Arthur, 3, 149, 382 ; his 

 story, 195ae<7. ; adopted child of 

 France, 206 ; at Dishley, 184 ; 

 Secretary to the Board of Agri- 

 culture, 196 ; his blindness, 197 ; 

 crusade against bad farming, 206 ; 

 his daughter, 197 ; his death, 197 ; 

 his estimate of the cultivation of 

 wheat in 1811, 266 ; his failure as 

 a farmer, 112; married life, 197; 

 on cow-dung as fuel, 198 ; on 

 enclosure, 302, 304, 305; on ex- 

 travagance of gentry, 347 ; on 

 Jethro Tull's house, 170; on the 

 open-field system, 199, 215; on 

 roads, 203, 204 ; in the eighteenth 

 century, 284 ; in Ireland, 286 ; on 

 rents, 213, 214 ; on wages, 213, 

 214 ; on Sir R. Weston, 107 ; on 



