INDEX 



Absolute ownership of land unknown 



to English law, 43 

 Acts against Inclosures — 

 4 Hen. VII c. 19 : 58, 

 An Act of 1534: 59 

 31 Eliz. c. 7 : 60 

 See also 59 n. 

 Advantages of cultivating-ownership, 



a yeoman farmer on, 17 n. 

 Advisory Committees, 12 

 Aglionby, Mr., on common rights, 77-8 

 Agrarian grievances the cause of the 



peasant revolts, xvi, 145 

 Agricultural Education in Elementary 



Schools Bill, 1905: 19-22 



Bill of 1893 : 22 n. 



authorities quoted on, 20; grants 



in aid, comparison between England 



and France, 31 

 Agricultural labourers, an examination 



into the condition of, during the 



years 1846-97 : 367-75 



— training, methods and cost of, 431-6 



— depression, xi 



— labourer, the, his position in olden 

 and modern times compared, xvii, 

 xviii 



Agriculture and horticulture, new pro- 

 fessions for women, 224-6 



— how regarded by the ancients, 394-6 



— in France, its prosperity due to "the 

 omnipotent principle of ownership," 

 203 



— male persons engaged in, table 

 showing decrease in numbers of, 379 



— our chief national concern, x 



— the one industry that never dies, 38 



— the teaching of, in French rural 

 schools, 34 



— why it should be assisted by the 

 State, 309-10 



— why it has decayed in England, 287 

 Agriculturists, how regarded in France, 



387 

 Allotments, early efforts on behalf of, 



176-86 

 Allotments and Small Holdings Act of 



1887: 183-4 



Allotments Extension Act of 1882 : 179 



-So 

 Arch, Joseph, the leader of the last 



peasants' revolt, 164-70 

 Ascham, Roger, on physical training, 



398 n. 

 Ashley, Professor, on the German 



peasantry, 271 

 Average population per square mile, 



table showing the, 388-9 



Bad farming, 247 



Ball, John, one of the leaders of Wat 

 Tyler's insurrection, 104, 120, 123, 

 125-8; the death-knell of slavery 

 sounded by, 136 



Ballads of fourteenth and fifteenth 

 centuries, quotations from, depicting 

 the miserable condition of the pea- 

 santry, IIO-II 



Bastiat, the French Cobden, 281 



Beaconsfield, Lord, on the restoration 

 of the peasantry, 175 



— on the past, present, and future, 426 

 Bedford, Duke of, on great estates, 



238, 240 

 "Black Death," the, 48, 107 

 Blomefield, "History of Norfolk," 



quoted as to agricultural prices in 



the fourteenth century, 118 

 Board of Agriculture, purchase by, of 



land for small holdings, 11 

 Bounties on wheat production, 296 ; 



would keep the price of wheat low, 



and therefore benefit the poorer 



classes, 302 

 Bramshot, the manor of, displacement 



of small holders, 65 

 Bread, how we could provide sufficient, 



in time of war, 326 



— comparative prices of, 337-8 

 British agriculture, short-sighted treat- 

 ment of, 285 



Brodrick, Mr. George, his analysis of 

 the New Domesday Book, 86 



Brunton, Sir Lauder, on the causes of 

 physical deterioration, 403 



Butter Bill, a, 242 



445 



