INDEX 



503 



Wiltshire, Report on (Davis), 233, 

 248, 294, 300. 



Winchester measures, 209. 



Winchcomb fair, 31. 



Winchcomb, John (Jack of Newbury), 

 80. 



Windsor, George III. 'a merino flock 

 at, 207 ; royal farm at, 360. 



Winstanley, Jerrard, 120 aeq. ; his 

 Letter to the Lord Fairfax, etc., 120, 

 426. 



Winter- keep, 65, 95, 96, 99 ; turnips 

 as, 134 ; effect of scarcity of, 188. 



Wire for fencing, 387. 



Wisbeach, St. Mary, 245; boats 

 discovered at, in 1635, 1 16. 



Wiseton, 208. 



Wissey, the, 116. 



Witenagemot at Andover, in 970, 

 336. 



Wit ham, the, 276. 



Whney, blanket industry at, 310. 



Wiveliscombe, woollen industry at, 

 311. 



Woad, 108, 136,312. 



Woburn, 207 ; fruit farm, 383 ; 

 sheep-shearings, 221 ; the Woburn 

 Wash, 386; Bordeaux mixture, 386. 



Wokingham, see Oakingham. 



Wolsey, Cardinal, 60. 



Wolves, extinct in reign of Charles 

 II.. 152. 



Women and children, employment of 

 in the fields, 408-411. 



Wontnereham, 26. 



Woodchester, Lord Ducie at, 172. 



Woods, destruction of, for fuel, 110; 

 enclosure of, 165 ; forestry on 

 commercial principles, 383. 



Woodstock, glove industry at, 310. 



Wool, burial in, in seventeenth 

 century, 142 ; decay of wool in- 

 dustry, 311 ; English wool, 15, 56, 

 59, 79 aeq., 98, 99, 177 aeq. ; export 

 and import of, 189 ; exportation 

 prohibited, 142 ; import duty 

 removed, 189 ; manufacture by 

 foreigners, 81 ; Markham on, 138, 

 139 ; from open-fields, 95 ; price 

 of, 142 ; in 1850, 371 ; in 1851 

 and 1864, 372 ; wool under the 

 Tudors, 56, 59, 79 aeq. ; in eigh- 

 teenth century, 177 seq. 



Wootton-under-Edge, industries at, 

 311. 



Worcester, glove industry at, 310. 

 Worcester Priory, Registry of, 24. 



Worcestershire, Report on (Pomeroy), 

 229 ; clover in, 134 ; executions 

 in 1814-15, 323 ; industries in, 

 311. 



Worgan, G. B., his Cornwall, 311. 

 Workhouse, the, see Poor Laws. 

 Worlidge, John, his Systema Agri- 



culturae, 91, 130, 134, 428; his 



other works, 428 ; his corn-drill, 



131, 171 ; on turnips, 134, 135. 

 Wotton, Lord Berkeley at, 32. 

 Wren-Hoskyns, Chandos, 359. 

 Wright, Thomas, his Monopoly of 



Small Farms a great cause of the 



present Scarcity, 298. 

 Writs and executions in 1814-15, in 



Norfolk, 323 ; in Suffolk, 323 ; in 



Worcestershire, 323. 

 Wychwood Forest, 235. 

 Wymondham (Leicestershire), 187 ; 



(Norfolk), 240. 

 Wynterton, 61. 



Yarcombe, 2. 



Yarland, 21, 22. 



Yarmouth, exports of corn from, in 

 eighteenth century, 194. 



Yarnton, balloting at, 26. 



Yarranton, Andrew, suggests a Land 

 Registry, 131 ; grows clover, 134 ; 

 his canal proposals, 277 ; his 

 Great Improvement of Lands by 

 Clover, etc., 428; his England's 

 Improvement by Sea and Land, 277, 

 428. 



Yeomen, under Elizabeth, 83, 85; 

 extinction of, attributed to en- 

 closure, 291, 292 ; meaning of the 

 word, 296, 297. 



York, a port, 276. 



Yorkshire, East Riding, Report on 

 (Leatham), 224, 239 ; North Rid- 

 ing, Report on (Tuke), 226, 296 ; 

 West Riding, Report on (Brown), 

 226, 251, 295. 



Youatt, William, 360. 



Young, Arthur, 3, 149, 382; his 

 story, 195 seq. ; adopted child of 

 France, 206; at Dishley, 184; 

 Secretary to the Board of Agri- 

 culture, 196 ; his blindness, 197 ; 

 crusade against bad farming, 206 ; 

 his daughter, 197 ; his death, 197 ; 

 his estimate of the cultivation of 

 wheat in 1811, 266 ; his failure as 

 a farmer, 112; married life, 197; 

 on cow-dung as fuel, 198 ; on 

 enclosure, 302, 304, 305 ; on ex- 

 travagance of gentry, 347 ; on 

 Jethro lull's house, 170 ; on the 

 open-field system, 199, 215 ; on 

 roads, 203, 204 ; in the eighteenth 

 century, 284 ; in Ireland, 286 ; on 

 rents, 213, 214; on wages, 213, 

 214 ; on Sir R. Weston, 107 ; on 



