INDEX 



361 



its maximum, 186; of livestock, 

 325-6; of wool, 39, 69, 172, 327. 



Extensive cultivation, 2. 



Extent of the Manor, 10. 



Eyton, Mr., 339. 



Faggots, price of, 114. 



Fairs for hops, 171 ; horses, 105 ; sheep, 

 1720. ; wool, 1720. 



Fallows, utilized, 112, 177, 181, 191, 

 195; in 1877, 1907, 331 ; in 1850, 353. 



Families employed on common and on 

 enclosed land, 195. 



Farm or feorm, 5. 



Farmer, day's work of, in seventeenth 

 century, 134; discontent of, 127-8, 

 184; financial position of, 101, 103, 

 156, 162, 184, 195, 204, 212-3, 243. 

 247, 257-8, 264-5, 2 93, 307, 3o8, 310, 

 320; growing more skilful, 101, 132. 



Farmer's Letters, Young's, 192. 



Farmhouses, 51, 101, 116, 119, 213, 

 226. 



Farming, bad, 273, 281 ; improvement 

 in, 28, in, 113, 115, 132, 160, 162, 

 192, 204, 211, 221, 229, 244, 265, 267, 

 271, 274, 275, 281, 288. 



Farming calendar, 17, 124. 



Farms, in sixteenth and seventeenth cen- 

 turies, 1 16-7; size of (1768), 202. 



Farnham, hops, 171. 



Fashion, farming becomes the, 192, 193. 



Fattening oxen, 31, 58, 125, 136-7, 166, 

 214, 216, 225n., 235, 288 ; sheep, 112, 

 1 66, 22gn. ; chickens, 170. 



' Favourite', 234. 



Feeding pigs, 16, 125. 



Fences, legislation as to, 4. 



Fens, the, 78, 123, 170, 318. 



Feversham, fruit growing near, 128, 171. 



Fifteenth century, character of, 68. 



Figs, 15,93, '36. 



Filberts, 93, 136. 



Fitzherbert, 31, 61, 76, 77, 83-5, in, 

 132, 135- 



Fixtures, 301. 



Flanders, cattle, 338; clover from, in, 

 1 66; hops from, 86, 150; wool ex- 

 ported to, 39, 327; sheep exported 

 to, 326. 



Flax, 17, 105, 135, 141, 151-2, 191, 251, 

 33i 332. 



Fleece, weight of, 37, 41, 104, 200, 215. 



Fleta, quoted, 12, 13. 



Floor, for hop-picking, 91, 151. 

 Flour, exports and imports of, 348-9. 

 Fluctuations in price of corn, 35, 66, 89, 



133, M 2 , 1 57> !86, 221, 223, 277. 

 Foldsoke, 9. 



Folding quality, of sheep, 253. 

 Food, labourer's, 9, 25, 34, 37, 53, 54, 



61, 62, 102, no, 134, 139-40, 164, 



206-8, 211, 240 n., 268, 290-1, 297, 



308, 311; farmer's, 101, 128, 213, 



240 n., 246, 308. 

 Foot-and-mouth disease, see Cattle 



Plagues. 

 Foot-rot, 294. 



Foreman, requirements of, 139. 

 Forncett, manor of, 25, 45, 46. 

 Fountains Abbey, 81. 

 Four-course rotation, 183. 

 Four-field system, 99. 

 Fourteenth century, characteristics of, 



38. 



Fowler, John, 304. 

 Fox, the, 140, 244. 

 France, exports to, 349 ; imports from, 



243, 323; livestock in, 334; small 



holders of, 202-3 > wheat crops in, 



332. 

 Freeholders, see also Yeoman, 119, 



I2I-2. 



Freemen, 7. 



Free tenants, 24, 29, 45. 



Free trade, 161, 277-81, 323; effect of, 



281, 284, 288, 293, 296. 

 French War, great, see Wars. 

 Fruit, 15, 93, 128, 143 ; imports of, 305. 

 Fruit-growing in seventeenth century, 



129-131, 132, 136; in eighteenth 



century, 171, 186-9; i nineteenth 



century, 319, 329, 330. 

 Furlongs, 3, 118. 

 Furniture of manor house, 5 2 ; labourer's 



home, 52. 



G 



Gafol, 9, 10. 



Galloway cattle, 169, 343. 



Game, damage by, 302. 



Game law, the first, 55. 



Gang system, 292. 



Geese, 34, 170. (See Poultry.) 



Gentry, at the Revolution ,156; estates of, 



under Walpole, 183 ; status of, 50, 97 ; 



supplanted, 122 ; 128, 137, 140, 156, 



184, 211, 212, 310. (See Landlords 



a nd Squire). 



