INDEX 



Abbot's Ripton, 72. 



Aberdeen Angus cattle, 288, 343. 



Accounts, keeping, 29, 49. 



Accumulation of estates, 1 23. 



Acre, 2 ; tenantry, 253. 



Advantages of large farms, 202. 



Affer, the, 35. 



Agricultural Holdings Acts, 283, 296, 



299-303- 



Agricultural revolution, the, of eight- 

 eenth century, 162. 



Agriculture, state of, 28, 38, in, 113, 

 115, 123, 132, 160, 162, 192, 204, 



211, 221, 229, 244, 245, 250, 265, 



267, 274, 287, 305 ; seventeenth-cen- 

 tury writers on, 127; state of, in 

 eighteenth century, 162, 192, 221, 

 229; nineteenth, 244, 245, 262-70, 

 271, 287. 



Aitchison, 237. 



Akermanni, 13. 



Alderney cattle, 233. 



Ale, 10. 



Allotments, 196, 230, 253, 255 n., 315-7. 



Allowance system, 237. 



Allowances, parish, 238, 241, 257, 284. 



Almaine, corn from, 20. 



Almonds, 93, 136. 



Amalgamation of farms, 29, 46, 47,95, 

 119, 120, 162, 202, 258, 317. 



America, gold discoveries in, 287 ; im- 

 ports from, 262, 293, 323-4. 



Ancaster, Earl of, estate of, 321. 



Andover, 39. 



Anti-Corn Law League, 280. 



Apples, 15, 65, 93, 129, 130, 131, 135-6, 

 143,171,186-9, 329, 332. (See Prices.) 



Apprentices, 108. 



Apricots, 93, 136. 



Arable district of England (1893), 306 n. 



Arable fields, i, 2, 4, 16, 73. 



Arable land, 56, 99, 100, 195; amount 

 of, in 1688, 155; decrease of, 59; 

 extent of, in Domesday, 19; in 1770, 

 199 ; in 1850, 353 ; in 1877 and 1907, 

 332; preponderance of, 25, 30; pro- 

 duce of, in 1688, 155; suffers more 



than grass, 248, 266, 281, 285, 286, 

 306 ; value of, 19, 40, 58, 115-7, T 39- 



Arch, Joseph, 290-2. 



Ardley, Inquisition of, 9. 



x\rgentina, imports from, 324. 



Arley, Upper, wine made at, 145. 



Artificial grasses, see Clover, improve 

 commons, 166. 



Ash timber, value of, 137. 



Assize of beer, 13, i4n. 



Association, British, 336. 



Average crops of corn (1770), 197. (See 

 under Wheat, Oats, Barley, &c.) 



Average size of farms in 1768, 202. 



Averagium, 10. 



Australia, gold discoveries in, 287 ; im- 

 ports from, 324 ; sheep introduced 

 into, 328 ; wool from, 328. 



Axholme, 123,260, 311, 318. 



Ayrshires, 339, 343. 



B 



Bacon, Lord, 322. 



Bacon, ' the necessary meate ' of the 

 labourer, _ 1 02, 140; price of, see 

 Prices. 



Badger, a corn dealer, 134. 



Bailiff, 12, 29, 49, 51, 6r, 71, 103, 109, 

 no, 137, 139, 355. 



Bakewell, 146, 163, 7, 214-7, 226 , 2 33> 

 343, 344- 



Balance sheet, estate, 307 ; farm, in 1805, 

 247; in 1888, 309. 



Balks, 3. 



Ball, John, 60. 



Banbury cheese, 173. 



Bank Restriction Act, 239, 240, 263. 



Barking Nunnery, vineyard at, 144. 



Barley, 20, 33, 36, 65, 91, 124, 135, 142, 

 155, 182, 227, 331-2, 353; cost of, per 

 acre, 198; produce, per acre, i65n., 

 197-8; profit on, 179,180. (See Prices.) 



Barns, size of, 51. 



Barren years at end of seventeenth cen- 

 tury, 115, 157. 



Basic slag, 304. 



Bassingthorpe, 103. 



Bates, Thomas, 274, 338. 



