INDEX 



497 



Scot, Reginald, his Hop Garden, 92, 

 99, 421. 



Scott, Sir W., his Heart of Midlothian, 

 173. 



Scotland, Act of Union, and weights 

 and measures, 208 ; cattle of, 180; 

 duty-free corn in, 261 ; General 

 Enclosure Act for (1695), 160; 

 milk records in, 389 ; roads in 

 1803, 286 ; the " seven ill years," 

 261. 



Scottish farmers in 1700, 159, 160, 

 161 ; Jethro Tull and, 172, 173. 



Scragg, Thomas, his drain-pipe 

 machine, 364. 



Scrope, Poulett, on " lynches," 2 ; 

 his History of Castle Combe, 43. 



Sea power, and the Corn Laws, 257, 

 258 



Sedgmoor, 154, 232 ; draining, 233. 



Seebohm, on " lynches," 2 ; on 

 village communities, 4. 



" Selions," 24. 



Seneschals, 6. 



Seneschaucie, 13, 16, 419. 



Separators, 389. 



Serfs, 22. 



Service of villeins, 22. 



Settled Lands Act, the (1882), 379. 



Settlement, Law of, see Poor Laws. 



Severn, the, 276. 



Sexton's Mead, 26. 



Sha, J., his Plaine and Easie Demon- 

 strations, etc., 427. 



Shaft esbury, industries at, 312. 



Shakespeare, horses in, 181, 182 ; his 

 types of vagabonds, 76 ; an open- 

 field tithe-owner, 68. 



Shalbourn, Jethro Tull at, 170. 



Shalloon, 309. 



Shawe's patent for manuring land 

 (1636), 104. 



Sheep, 15 ; under George III., 57 ; 

 in 1837, 354: in 1874, 373; in 

 Bedfordshire, 241 ; in Huntingdon- 

 shire, 238 ; in Lincolnshire, 238 ; 

 in Worcestershire, 229 ; Bakewell's 

 experiments with, 186 ; lets his 

 rams, 186 ; carriers of manure, 27 ; 

 on commons, 27, 128, 150 ; dead- 

 weight of, 98 ; ewes milked in 

 Northumberland, 202 ; fanciful 

 points in, 179 ; improvements in 

 the eighteenth century, 177 seq. ; 

 Markham on, 138 ; Mascall on, 

 138 ; method of folding in Flanders, 

 110; Mortimer on, 138; under 

 open-field system, 95 ; shearings 

 at Holkham, 220 seq. ; at Woburn, 

 221 ; shearing-machines, 387 ; vari- 

 eties of, 138, 139, 178, 372. 



Sheffield, 277 ; steel industry at, 310. 

 Sheffield, Lord, establishes an Agri- 

 cultural Society at Lewes, 209. 

 Shepherd, qualifications of, 16. 

 Shepton Mallet, woollen industry at, 



311. 



Sherwood Forest, 153. 

 Shipton-on-the-Stour, 277. 

 Shire horses, 355. 

 Shirley, Thomas, translator of Cock- 



learia Curiosa, 429. 

 Shirreff, Patrick, and pedigree corn, 



354. 



Shoddy as manure, 366. 

 Shorthorn cattle, 180, 187, 354. 

 Shorthorn Society, the, 373. 

 Shots, 24. 

 Shrewsbury, turnpikes on the Bangor 



road, 284 ; industries at, 310. 

 Shrift districts, 336. 

 Shropshire, Report on (Biehton), 

 228; (Plymley), 294; industries 

 in, 310. 

 Silk, industry in Berkshire, 310 ; in 



Coventry, 310. 

 Silk- worms, 112. 



Silverdale sheep (Lancashire), 178. 

 Sinclair, Sir John, President of the 

 Board of Agriculture, 196 ; his 

 notes on dead-weight of stock in 

 1795, 188 ; his Address to the 

 Society for the Improvement of 

 British Wool, 354 ; his State of the 

 Country in December, 1816, 320. 

 Single tax, the, 399, 403, 417. 

 Site values, 399. 

 Skeat, Prof. W. W., on Fitzherbert, 



90, 420 ; on tramways, 351. 

 Skelton, John, his Ellinour Rumming, 



98. 



Skye, crofters in (1750), 28. 

 Slate clubs, 414. 



Slater, Dr. Gilbert, his English 

 Peasantry and the Enclosure of 

 Common Fields, 164. 

 Sleaford, 153. 

 Small, James, of Blackadder Mount, 



his ploughs, 202, 208. 

 Small holdings (and see Small Land- 

 owners"), 396 ; and tenant-right, 

 405 ; the Small Holdings Act 

 criticised, 415. 



Smith, Adam, and the Corn Laws, 

 272 ; and the price of wheat (1453- 

 1497), 448. 



Smith, Charles, his Tracts on the Corn 

 Trade and Corn Laws, 266 ; esti- 

 mate of population, 266. 

 Smith, James, of Deanston, 363 ; hia 

 Remarks on Thorough Draining and 

 Deep Ploughing, 364. 



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