INDEX 



475 



Boarding out London children in 



villages, 286 



Bolton, Mrs. (Nelson's sister), 450 

 Bond crank, 283 

 Bond spool, 283 

 Borrett, Mr. Robert, 459 

 Boswell, 339, 341-2, 344, 353-4 

 Botfly, see Horsebee 

 Bountyon wheat, question of a, 413-5, 



419, 455 

 Boy killed by swallowing tin squeaker, 



372 



Boys, damage done to hawthorns by, 

 172-3 



Bozards, the, 261 



Bradenham Hall, 139, 375 



Bradenham Wood, 139 



Brambles, removing, 12 



Brewers and 'tied' houses, 71, 110- 

 12, 114; vast political strength of, 

 in, 113 



Brews, Margery, 6 



Brick, made in 1393, 322-3 ; Nelson's 

 initials on a, 449 



Bridle, an ancient, 56 



British colonies as an emigration 

 field, 74, 182-3, 396- 8 



Brittany butter, preparation of for the 

 London market, 190 



Broach-splitting, process of, 182 



Broaches, use of, 283 



Broome, 201, 202 



Broome Church, 440 



Bruce (or Brews), tradition of, 6 



Brunllan, Roger, Alveva, and 

 Thomas, 24-5 



Brushing pasture land, 128, 129, 

 141, 149 



Buck (farm labourer), 61, 142, 222, 

 271, 282-4, 295, 322, 366 



Bungay, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 246, 

 273,351; remains of a Benedictine 

 nunnery, 24 ; formerly famed for 

 copper bottoming of ships, 26; 

 legend of the Black Dog, 26-7 ; 

 reminiscences of Chateaubriand's 

 connection with, 28-9 ; floods, 

 31 ; rent audit at, 49-56 ; sale by 

 auction of the King's Head Hotel, 

 110,111, 113,229; 'tied'houses 

 in, IIO-I2; tablet on front of 



house, recording price of grain in 

 1800, 171-2; licensed houses in, 



327 



Bungay Brewster Sessions, 327 



Bungay Castle, 21, 23, 24, 113, 114, 

 229 



Bungay Common .(or Outney), 1 8, 19, 

 21, 46 



Bungay compost, 47, 132, 307, 383 



Bungay market, 108-9, l &9> 1 7 2 > l %9> 

 219 



Bungay Races, 154 



Burial Service, refusal by a clergyman 

 to read over a parisioner, 236 



Bush-draining, 14, 43, 97, 109, 420 ; 

 description of, 65, 76, 78 



Butter, 125; fraudulent competition 

 of margarine, 183-4, 191, 445, 446; 

 prices obtained for, 189, 207 ; unre- 

 munerative to the small farmer, 

 189-90; importation of inferior, 190 



Butter Association, shopkeepers sum- 

 moned by, 193-4 



Butterflies, 163 



CALVES and calving, 47, 57-8, 114, 



116, 146, 162, 371-2 

 Candlemas Day proverbs, IOI-2 

 Canham (page to Nelson's sister), 



45 



Carr, Mr., 322 



Carrots, soil for, 132-3 ; growing, 

 219, 286; damage done to by 

 rabbits, 293 ; lifting and storing, 

 400, 402 



Cart-wheels, repairing, 222 



Carter, Mr., killed by lightning, 321 



Cat and cock pheasant, 439 



Cattle : Norfolk red polls, 48, 58-60, 

 64-5, 117, 119, 213, 248, 253, 

 293, 382 ; rearing for the show- 

 yard, 64, 65, 136, 213, 253, 395, 

 412, 417, 439; risks of buying at 

 markets, 83-4, 89, 1 06, 109; 

 instinct in, 84 ; ' blowing ' of, 84, 

 87, 88 ; sickness among, 105, 109, 

 114, 1 1 6, 1 20, 128, 1 88; estima- 

 ting weight of, 119, 282 ; feeding 

 in winter, 150, 156, 272, 287 ; 

 buying and selling prices, iSi-2, 



