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INDEX. 



Eight in a tiny bedroom, 203 

 Eightpence a day, 226 

 Eight shillings a week, 228 

 Elgin, 93, 95, 103, 105-6, 108, no, 



153 



Emigration, 38 



of labourers, 165 

 Employment under cover, 40 

 Enfeebled frames, 178 

 Engagements, Daily (Ireland), 124 



Fortnightly, 13, 79 



Half-yearly, 12, 78, 91, 95-6, 

 114, 123-5 



Mixed (Ireland), 124 



Monthly, 12, 79, 97 



Quarterly, 12, 124 



Weekly, 12, 13, 79, 97 



Yearly, 12, 13, 38, 78, 95-6, 114, 



123-5 



Engmeman, 3 

 English allotment system, 174 



counties, Wages in, 49 



peasant, Help for the, 179 



village system absent (Scot- 

 land), 114 



English Peasantry, The, 175, 184 

 " Englishman's castle," The, 179 

 Enniskillen hiring fair, 124 

 Essex, 13, 24, 27, 34, 40, 50, 53-4, 



60, 153 



Exe river, The, 188 

 Exeter, 191, 265 



Vale of, 1 88 

 Exmoor, 188, 190 



district, 206 



Exodus from the country, 48 

 Extra cash payments, 26, 27 



pay (Ireland), 134 



payments, Total (Wales), 87 

 Extras, 4 



cash, 26 



for animal rearing, 30 



for marketing, 30 



for pigs killed, 30 



for shows, 30 



for Sunday work, 30 



piecework and allowances in 



kind (Ireland), 127-9 

 (Scotland), 98-101 

 (Wales), 80-2 

 Eye-witness evidence, 256-9 



FABULOUS WAGES, ALMOST, 33 



Factories, Women's work in, 61 



Faggots free, 271 



Falkirk, 96 



" Fallen sheep " perquisite, 101 



Families hired, 16, 94 



in Ireland co-operate, 139 

 Family earnings, 52, 261-2, 268 

 Farm bailiffs in the United King- 

 dom, Number of, 158 



servant, The, 2 

 Farmer denned, Word, i 



guardian, The, 39 



meanness, 231-2 



The large, 174, 175 



The small, 174, 175 

 Farmer's boy, Happy (Ireland), 



142 

 Farmers' cottages, 42 



food wretched, Irish, 146 

 Farmers in the United Kingdom, 



Number of, 158 

 Fawcett, Professor, 164 

 Feeble labourers, 257-8 

 " Feeing fairs," 95 

 Fen districts, 33 

 Fermanagh, 124, 131, 133, 135, 



153, 155 



Feudal times, A relic of, 1 78 

 Fife, 93, 96, 103, 105, 107-8, no, 



153, 155 



" Finery," Love of, 222, 291 

 Firing allowance, 35 

 free (Ireland), 141 

 First-rate men, 33 

 Fish consumed (Scotland), 111-12 

 Food bartered for (Scotland), 



114 



in Devon waters, 188 

 Fishing, Irish peasants do some- 



123 



population, 105 

 Fixity of tenure, 38 

 Flintshire, 84-5, 87, 153 

 " Flitting," 96 

 Flour consumed, 58 

 (Ireland), 137, 138 

 (Scotland), 111-2 

 free, 37 



Flower farms, 24 

 Foggers, 2 



" Followers " (calves), 101 

 Folly of bad cottages, 277 

 Fontmill Magnus, 265, 276 

 Food allowance, 32 

 allowances, 92-3, 99 

 and clothing, 56-74 

 and drink as payment, 14 

 consumed, 63 

 allocation of, 59 

 percentage of, 58 

 Average total value of, 58 



