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INDEX. 



Congested town labour market, 48 

 Connaught, 128, 134, 136-8, 140, 



147-8 



Continuity of employment, 38-41 

 " Contract money," 78 

 Cookstown hiring fair, 124 

 Cootehill hiring fair, 124 

 Corduroy, 290 



Cork, 123, 131, 133, 135, 153, 155 

 Corn crops, Hoeing, 24 



in Wales, 80 



harvest, 7, 97 

 Cornwall, 4, 13, 36-7, 50, 54, 60, 



153, 155 



Depopulation of, 47 

 Cost of living in 1770, 284 

 in 1850, 285 

 in 1878, 285 

 " Cotmen," 93 



Cottage accommodation, Bad, 195 

 building, 166 



systems, 42. 

 closets, 204 

 letting, 43 

 or pigsty ? 202 

 owners, Disgrace to, 200 

 rent free (Scotland), 113 



Value of, 1 02 

 rents, 82, 104, 131, 139, 247, 



262, 269 



in 1770, 285 



in 1850, 285 



in 1878, 285 



The " cheap," 42 



The ill-repaired, 48 



The squalid, 178 



" Cottage Homes of England," 182 

 " Cottage question," The, 42, 275 

 " Cottagers," 93 

 Cottages, 81, 271-80 

 and rents, 42-5, 51 

 Average rents of, 44 

 Bad, 200, 201, 274 

 Cost of, 44, 163 



Free, 36, 37, 42, 5*. 55, 82, 87, 

 93, 99-iQO, 125, 128-9, 13 1 . 

 134, 261 

 Ideal, 281-3 

 improving, 278, 279 

 in Ireland, 123 

 (Ireland), Inferior, 139 

 Picturesque, 182 

 Rack-rented, 43 

 rented, 42 

 The sixpenny hovel (Ireland), 



129 m 

 thrown in, 43 



Cottages, Tied, 43 

 Cottars, 1 6, 93-94 

 Country life, Charm of a, 176 



ratepayers' loss, 48 



versus town life, 48 

 Cow, Grazing for, 129 

 Cow-keep free, 37, 101, 271 

 Cow-keeping, 36, 62, 87, 106 



in Scotland, 100, 113 

 Cow pastures, 36 



syndicates (Scotland), 113 

 Cows for labourers, 36 



in the United Kingdom, Total 



of, 171 



Cranberry gathering, 254 

 Cranbourne cottages, 200 

 Cream, Devonshire, 188 

 " Credit," food and dress, 284-94 



system, Store, 293 

 " Crippled up," 205 



at forty-five, 230 

 Crofters, 97, 106 

 Crofts, 1 01 

 Cromarty, 103, 105-6, 108, no, 



153-4 

 Crops and grass in the United 



Kingdom, Area of, 170 

 beaten down, 34 

 heavy, 24 

 in the United Kingdom, Total of 



sundry, 170 

 Scanty, 24 



Cropwork in Scotland, 97 

 Cullompton, 243 



Cumberland, 4, 12, 14, 18, 27, 

 36-7, 50, 54 60, 149, 153, 

 155 



DAILY NEWS, THE, 192 

 Daily Telegraph, The, 277 

 Dairy farms, 5, 6 



girls (Ireland), 125 



lands (Ireland), 124 



men (Ireland), 125 



produce, Rent paid from (Ire- 

 land), 139 



work, 95 

 " Dark hole/' Old lady and the, 



296 



Darrikers, 18 



Dartford speech of Lord Ran- 

 dolph Churchill, 164 

 Dartmoor, 187 

 Datal men, 10, 18 

 Daughters assist (Ireland), 125 



Hiring of, 1 6 

 Daymen, 10 



