INDEX 



481 



Elizabeth, Queen, her reign, 78 seq. ; 

 prosperity under, 82 ; not universal, 

 85 ; drainage of marshes under, 

 115 ; and the Corn Laws, 258. 



Elkington, Joseph, his drainage 

 methods, 363 ; receives 1000 

 from Parliament, 363. 



Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, 68. 



Ellis, William, of Gaddesden, on 

 Aylesbury farmers, 198 ; his 

 Chiltern and Vale Farming ex- 

 plained, 191 ; his Modern Husband- 

 man, 191 ; his Shepherd's Sure 

 Guide, 149. 



Ellman, John, of Glynde, 187 ; his 

 Southdowns, 354. 



Elm, fenlands of, 245. 



Elmton Common, 227. 



Eltsley, sheep-rot at, in 1793, 243. 



Ely, 116; Isle of, derelict land in, 

 322 ; executions and arrests in, 

 1812-15, 323. 



Ember Court, flatting mills on the 

 Mole, 309. 



Emigration, 398, 408, 409 ; in 1872- 

 81, 410. 



Employment, decrease of, in modern 

 times, 398. 



Enclosure, 37 seq., 56 aeq., 97, 224 

 aeq. ; in seventeenth and eighteenth 

 centuries, 56 seq. ; under Elizabeth, 

 86, 87, 161, 167 ; under James I., 

 103 seq. ; Acts (enclosure), 161, 

 162, 163, 167; very numerous 

 between 1795 and 1812, 264 ; first 

 General Enclosure Act (1801), 252 ; 

 Act of 1773, 224 ; of 1801, 252 ; 

 of 1836, 252; of 1845, 252; 

 acreage enclosed between 1760 and 

 1815, 163, 164, 214, 215; ad- 

 vantages of, 97, 122 seq., 231, 233, 

 297; attacks on, 61 seq., 150; 

 Becon, Thomas, advocate of, 123 ; 

 Blith, Walter, advocate of, 113, 

 133 ; case for enclosure stated by 

 J. Lee, A. Moore, and S. Taylor, 

 125; Catthorp Common, enclosure 

 of, 126, 127 ; championed by 

 Fitzherbert and Tusser, 96, 97, 

 122, 123 ; Child, Robert, advocate 

 of, 123, 124 ; compensation, none 

 to small holders, 299 ; compulsory, 

 150 ; controversy on, in eighteenth 

 century, 152 ; corn area diminished 

 by, 267 ; Cowper, John, on, 151 ; 

 Commissioners, 163 ; their pro- 

 ceedings, 298, 299 ; substituted for 

 Parliamentary Committees, 252 ; 

 Court of Chancery, sanction re- 

 quired from, 162 ; Crown, sanction 

 of required, 162 ; in Cumberland, 



48 ; a curse on families, but not in 

 Leicestershire, 127 ; depopulation 

 and, 60, 151, 291, 299 ; the Digger 

 Movement and, 121 ; displacement 

 caused by, 75, 307 ; drainage of 

 Fens, compared with, 119 seq. ; 

 effects of, on rural population, 290 

 seq., 305, 306 ; socially and morally, 

 302-307 ; Halhead, Henry, dis- 

 approves of, 125 ; Laurence, John 

 and Edward, on, 150 ; Lee, Joseph, 

 champion of, 125 ; literature of the 

 subject, 150, 303; "makes fat 

 beasts and lean poor," 291 ; in 

 Midland Counties, 66, 72 ; Moore, 

 Adam, champion of, 125 ; Nourse, 

 Timothy, advocate of, 150 ; open- 

 field farms not sufferers by, 71 ; 

 Parliament and, 60 ; Elizabethan, 

 141 ; Hanoverian, 141 ; procedure, 

 prior to 1801, 249 seq. ; processes 

 of, 56 seq., 150, 157, 162; Report on, 

 to Board of Agriculture ( 1808), 305 ; 

 roads improved by, 279 ; Rous, 

 John, disapproves of, 60 ; soil, 

 character of, and, 167 ; statistics of, 

 164, 165, 231, 305; Taylor, Sil- 

 vanus, advocate of, 125 ; tithes 

 extinguished by, 252, 342 ; tithe- 

 owners resist, prior to 1765, 168 ; 

 voluntary arrangements, 163 ; of 

 wastes, 72, 215 ; wool, effect on 

 quality of, 98 ; wheat, price of, 

 affects, 167 ; Young, Arthur, on, 

 302, 305. 



Enfield Common, 237. 



England's Improvement, and season- 

 able advice . . . how to prepare the 

 ground for sowing Hemp and Flax 

 seed, etc. (1691), 136, 430. 



Englebert, William, drains the Fens, 

 115. 



English Jersey Cattle Herd-book, and 

 Society, 373. 



Engrossing, approved of by Edward 

 Laurence, 151, 298 ; the Corn Laws 

 and, 256, 264. 



An Enquiry into the Reasons for and 

 against Inclosing the Open Fields, 

 303. 



An Enquiry into the Advantages and 

 Disadvantages resulting from Bills 

 of Inclosure, etc., 303. 



Ensilage, 387 ; in Stewart tunes, 131 



Epping Forest, in 1794, 154, 238. 



Ep worth, petition from, 119 ; in 

 dustries at, 309. 



Erdeswick, Sampson, his Survey of 

 Staffordshire, 85. 



Ermine Street, 279. 



Erskine, Lord, at Holkham, 221. 



