INDEX 



449 



Land values, statistics showing how they 

 have fallen in recent years, 251 n. 



" Landlord, tenant, and labourer 

 system," 5 



Landlords' rents, large reductions in, 

 and the results, 292 



Large and small farms, 187-8 



Large farms, failure of the policy of, 



273-5 



Latimer, Bishop, on inclosures, 57 



on shooting, 399 



Laveleye, M. de, on peasant pro- 

 prietary, 16 



Lawes, Sir J. B., dictum that the land 

 of this country could support the 

 population, 9 



Local Government Act, 1894, its re- 

 lation to labourers and the land, 

 184-S 



Lodge, Sir Oliver, on rural education, 



25 



Macaulay, Lord, on the state of Eng- 

 land in 1865 : 61 



— on inclosures, 88 



Mallet, Sir L., on Free Trade, 354-5 

 Mansell, Mr., on the amount of em- 

 ployment required for the cultivation 

 of wheat, 298 n. 

 McCulloch, Mr., on large farms, 69 

 Meat, comparative prices of, 336 

 " Merrie England," village life in, 38 

 Migration from the country to the 

 towns, xxiii 



— so-called "natural tendency" to- 

 wards, 385 



— a comparison between England and 

 Germany, 386 



Milk, its value as a food, and its 



present dearness, 195-6, 334-5 

 Mill, John Stuart, on common rights 



and robbery of the poor, 89-90 

 Monasteries, the suppression of, its 



connection with the ruin of the 



peasantry, 95-102 

 Morley, Mr. , on the repeal of the Corn 



Laws, 306 

 Morris, William, one of the few writers 



who has shown sympathy with the 



peasantry in their revolt, 133 



National defence, 397 



— strength dependent on a numerous 

 rural population, x 



National Union of Agricultural 

 Labourers, formation of, 166-8 ; 

 opposed by the territorial party, 170; 

 its end, 171 



Nationalization of the land, as advo- 

 cated by Mr. Henry George, 276-7 ; 

 by Dr. Wallace, 277-8 



Naval authorities on our command of 

 the sea in its relation to our food- 

 supply in time of war, 319-20 



Nelson, Earl, his proposal to prevent 

 depopulation ofthe rural districts, 175 



Onslow, Lord, on County Councils and 



small holdings, 207 

 Oppression of the peasant, a modern 



instance ofthe old feeling, 174 

 Owners of land, number of, in 1876: 85 

 Ownership must be the basis of peasant 



farming, 233 



Passy, M., on large and small farms, 

 187 n. 



Pauperism, how it could be reduced, 

 299 



— what it costs us, 404-8 



Peasant, the, how he fared after he 

 ceased to be a real peasant and be- 

 came a mere wage-receiving labourer, 

 161-75 



Peasant proprietary, authorities quoted 

 on, 10 



a lost art in England, 16 



the creation of, a national con- 

 cern, 212 



Peasant Revolts — 



Under Wat Tyler and John Ball, 

 105, 113-37 

 ,, Jack Cade, 138-42 

 „ Robert Kett, 150-55 

 , , Joseph Arch, 163-73 



Peasant wars of the sixteenth century, 

 56 



Peasantry, the English, their struggles 

 and sufferings, too much neglected 

 by historians, 130 



Peasants' Revolt, the first, what good 

 results came from it, 134-7 



Peel, Sir Robert, on common rights, 78 



Penury and wealth, the contrast be- 

 tween, in England, 410 



Permanent pasture, increase of, 6 



Petition to Parliament to repeal the 

 Corn Laws, how it was got up, 371 



Petitions against inclosure, 73-4 



Physical deterioration, report of the 

 Army Medical Department on, 400 



Physique, national, deterioration in, 

 385 



"Pipe Rolls," the, 47-8 n. 



Political econom)', what is it? 182 n. 



Political state of farm labourers, changed 

 by Franchise Act of 1884 : 180 



