446 



LAND REFORM 



Cade, Jack, his character misrepre- 

 sented, amongst others by Sliake- 

 speare, 138-9; his Bill of Requisites, 

 139-41 ; his death, 142 



Caird, Sir James, on grants from the 

 Treasury for purchase of land, 5 



— on security of possession, 2 



— on partially productive cultivated 

 land, 6 



— on rent of arable land, 70 

 Camden on the Domesday Book, 83 

 Carrington, Lord, small holdings on his 



estate, 223 n. 



Carroll, Professor, on the teaching of 

 agriculture, 24-5 



Catshill, colony of peasant proprietors 

 at, 214-20 



Cavendish, Sir John de, a too zealous 

 justice, 130 



Census of 1901, statistics as to area 

 and population of England and 

 Wales, 376-84 



Central Chamber of Agriculture, ob- 

 jections of to the Land Purchase Bill, 

 247 ; the Bill discussed by, 257-9 



Chamberlain, Mr., his 5 per cent duty 

 on imports of foreign produce a 

 benefit to small proprietors, 220-1, 

 298-9 



— his fiscal proposals, together with 

 the scheme set forth in this book, a 

 cure for the evils described, 423 



Channel Islands, description of a typical 



farmer, 232 

 Chantries, suppression of, 99 

 Charter of Henry III on the tenure of 



land, 44 

 Cheap food not the result of free trade, 



334-45 . „ 



" Cheapness" and "chanty, two arch- 

 evils of English economy, 407-9 



Chivalry, its evil influence, 132 



Chronicles of Walsingham, the, on 

 Wat Tyler's insurrection, 119-21, 

 123-5 



Church lands, how they were con- 

 fiscated, and into whose hands tliey 

 came, 97-100 



Class legislation, the peasant divorced 

 from the soil by, 16 



Clay, Henry, and Cobden — whose 

 policy was right? 284-5 



Cobbelt, William, against inclosures, 

 76-7, 92 



Cobden, his predictions as to benefits 

 of "free imports" not realized, 279 



— and free trade, 332 



— and the commercial policy of other 

 nations, 354-6 



Cobden, predictions of, that have not 

 been realized, 356 



— had he lived to the present day 

 would probably have been an ardent 

 tariff reformer, 359 



— school, the, of the present day, 360 

 Commercial treaty with France, the, 



354, 355 n. 



— interest, the, in Parliament, xi 

 Committee on the Fruit Industry of 



Great Britain, 245-7. 

 Common rights, a farmer on, 74-S 

 Compensation for common rights, to 



whom paid, 78 n. 



— for improvements, 244 

 Compulsory provisions, absence of, 



from Land Purchase Bill, 251 

 Continental peasantry, their condition 



misunderstood by travellers, 227 

 Cooper, Sir Robert, on our food-supply 



in time of war, 224-5 

 Copyholders, position of, 48, 49, 136 

 Corn, average yield per acre in Great 



Britain compared with that of the 



Continent, 6 n. 

 Corn Law agitation, the, 279-81 

 County Councils, their attitude towards 



the Small Holdings Act, 206-8 

 purchase of land by, for small 



holdings, 207 n. 

 difficulties in the administration 



of a peasant proprietary Act, 210-11 

 Cowper, Mr. (Lord Mount Temple), 



his Field Gardens Bill, 177 

 Cultivating classes, condition of, at the 



time of Wat Tyler's revolt, 105-13 

 " Cultivating-ownership," 5 



— advantages of, 8 



— a yeoman farmer on the advantages 

 of, I7n. 



Davies, Rev., on evils of inclosures, 71 

 Day laliourers, their improvidence 



compared with the thrift of peasant 



proprietors, 228 

 Demands of the rel^els in Wat Tyler's 



insurrection, 117 

 Denmark an example to England for 



small cultivation, co-operation, etc., 



230 

 Depopulation of rural England, 376-93 



— and inclosures, 93-4 

 Discontent of the peasantry in the 



fourteenth century, 113 

 Disfranchisement for receiving medical 



relief, Bill to remove, 180-I 

 Distinguished men who have sprung 



from the peasant and yeoman classes, 



424 n. 



