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INDEX 



Blith, Walter, his story, 113; his 

 English Improver improved, 91, 

 110, 113, 123, 426; on drainage, 

 112, 114, 118, 119, 120 ; on tenant- 

 right, etc., 113; advocates en- 

 closure, 113, 123, 165, 166; his 

 water level, 114 ; on extravagance 

 of farmers, 347. 



Blome, Richard, his Gentleman's 

 Recreation, 430. 



Blood, manorial value of, 110, 367. 



Bloomfield, Robert, his Farmer's Boy, 

 193. 



Bloxham, industries at, 310. 



Blundeville, Thomas, his Fewer 

 chiefysl offices belonging to Horsc- 

 manshippe, 105 ; his translation of 

 Grisone's Arte of Ryding, 421. 



Blunt, Col., of Gravesend, ploughs 

 with one horse, 109. 



Board of Agriculture. See Agri- 

 culture. 



Board of Trade. See Trade. 



" Board " land. See Bord-land. 



" Bobbin " (Martha Ann Young), 

 197. 



Booking, industries at, 309. 



Bohemia, cattle plague originated 

 in, 149. 



Bolingbroke, at Dawley, 173. 



Bolymong, 11, 93. 



Bondmen, 20, 21, 40, 47, 52 ; at 

 Castle Combe, 43. 



Bones, imports of, in 1827 and 1837, 

 366 ; as manure, 366 ; Sheffield 

 Bone-dust, 194, 218. 



Boon -days, 48. 



Booth, Thomas and John, their 

 Shorthorns, 354. 



Bordars, 20, 22. 



Borde, Andrew, his Dyetary, 84, 100. 



Bordeaux mixture, 386. 



Bord-land, the, 6. 



Borlase, William (Cornish antiquary), 

 on the extravagance of labourers, 

 347. 



Boston, 276. 



Bosworth, Battle of, 57, 65. 



Bounties. See Corn Laws. 



Bovates, 22. 



Bow, Sir J. B. Lawes' works at, 367. 



Boys, John, his Kent, 293. 



Bradfield, home of Arthur Young, 

 195. 



Bradley, Lord Berkeley at, 32. 



Bradley, Prof. Richard, on English 

 horses, 183 on drains, 192 ; and 

 Worlidge's machine, 171 ; his 

 Complete Body of Husbandry, 134, 

 192 ; his Gentleman and Farmer's 

 Guide, 168, 183; his Survey oj 



Ancient Husbandry, 419 ; edits 



Houghton's Collection, 430. 

 Brandersham, 26. 

 Brandon, the, 116. 

 Bread, Assize of, 256, 448 seq. ; 



under Elizabeth, 84 ; pure, 132 ; 



" bread treet," 449 ; wastell, 449 ; 



white, 461 ; wheaten, standard 



wheaten, and household, 450. 

 Bredon, 229. 

 Brent marsh, 232, 294. 

 Bridges, legislation in Tudor times, 



281 ; magistrates and, 281. 

 Bridgnorth/228, 276. 

 Bridgwater, Duke of, his canal, 278. 

 Bridlington Quay, 153. 

 Bridport, industries at, 312. 

 Brigg, 153. 

 Brillat-Savarin, 107. 

 Brindley, James, 278. 

 Brinklow, Henry, 62. 

 Bristol, 276 ; Fruit and Cider In- 

 stitute at, 390. 

 Broad ox-gang, 21. 

 Bromwich, nail industry at, 310. 

 Broseley, garden-pot industry at, 



310. 



Brougham, Lord, his Speech on Agri- 

 cultural Distress (9 April, 1816), 



320. 



Brouncker's ploughs, 104. 

 Brown, Robert (farmer at Markle), 



his West Riding of Yorkshire, 226, 



251, 296. 

 Brown, Robert (of Inverness), his 



Letters on the Distressed State of 



Agriculturists, 319. 

 Brown, Thomas, his Derbyshire, 294. 

 Buckingham, Duke of, his steward, 



151. 

 Buckinghamshire, Report on (James 



and Malcolm), 234 ; industries in, 



309. 



Buckwheat, ploughing in, 95. 

 Bullock's Hill, St. Faith's fair, 218. 

 Burghley, Lord, fond of gardening, 



101. 

 Burial grounds, 335 ; and tithes, 336, 



337. 

 Burke, Edmund, his experiments in 



carrots at Beaconsfield, 208. 

 Burning land, 107. 

 Burrell, Andre wes, his Brief e Relation, 



etc., 116, 425; his discovery in 



Wisbeach river, 116; his attacks 



on Vermuyden, 117; his patent 



draining machine, 104. 

 Burslem wares, 276. 

 Burwell Fen, 245. 

 Bury St. Edmunds, manure from, 



192. 



