INDEX. 



The English Peasantry, 175, 184 

 Thirteen in one bedroom, 205 

 Thomas, Mr. Leufer, 81 

 Thornycombe, 245 

 Threshing, 7, 24 

 Tillage free to labourers, 37 

 " Times have changed," 178 

 Times, The, 199, 233, 243-4 

 Tipperary, 125, 131, 133, 135, 



155-6 



Title to land, 162 

 Tiverton, 228, 266 



Junction, 243 



Tobacco-chewing for hunger, 288 

 Tobacco consumption (Scotland), 



113. "4 



expenditure, 62 

 (Ireland), 140 



Money spent on (Scotland), 113 

 Torn clothes of children, 224 

 Torridge river, The, 188 

 Torrington, 267 

 Totnes, 266 

 Town life, Attractions of, 159 



occupations, 38 

 Towns overcrowded, 48 

 Transferring hogs, 92 

 Travelling by night, 7 

 Treacle consumed, 58 



(Scotland), in 

 Turbary free (Ireland), 134 

 Turf-cutting, 253-4 



(Ireland), 123, 139 

 Turf free (Ireland), 128 

 Turning, 23 



Turnips in the United Kingdom, 

 Total of, 170 



-Pulling, 24 



-Singling, 24 



-Thinning, 97 

 Twin lambs, 28 

 Two-roomed cottages, 195, 196 



hovel, The, 204, 206 

 " Two taps running," 240 

 Typhoid contagion, 204 

 Typhus from bad drainage, 199 

 Tyrone, 124, 131, 133, 135, 135-6 



ULSTER, 126, 128, 136, 140, 145, 148 



boarding custom, 132 



engagements, 123, 124 

 Ulverston, 18 

 Unemployed, The, 173 

 Unemployment, 38 



in towns, 48 



Unmarried labourers, 84 

 Up-Avon, 262 



" Upstanding wages," 23, 32 

 Utopia, A village, 281-3 



VEGETABLES FREE, 37 



in allotments, 61 

 Verbal agreements, 78 

 Vetches in the United Kingdom, 



Total of, 170 

 Villages depopulated, 48 



WAGE FLUCTUATION in Wales, 85 

 Wages, 194 



advanced, 260-9 

 " Wages bill," A theoretical, 35 

 Wages in 1770, 285 



in 1850, 285 



in 1878, 285 



of farm labourers (England), 

 49-55 



Summer (Ireland), 132 



Winter (Ireland), 132 

 Waggoners, 3, 19, 21 

 Walks to work, Long, 204 

 Want in rose-bound cottages, 184 

 Warwickshire, 9, 13, 24, 26, 34, 

 50. 53-4. 60/147-8, 155-6, 

 192-3, 247, 280 



Waste land for goats (Ireland), 139 

 Waste- wool privilege, 101 

 Waterford, 131, 133, 155 

 Water supply of Devon, 202 

 Weaning lambs, 92 

 " Weather " a factor, 33 



Bad, 34 



Webber, John, 243-4 

 Weeding, 7, 10, 22, 258, 261 

 Weekly engagements, 75 



wages, Average (England), 49- 



50 

 Welsh counties, 88 



peasant, Help for the, 179 

 Westbury, 263, 274 

 West country, The, 187-91 



peasants, 181, 192-3 

 Western counties, 193 

 West Lothian, 149 

 Westmeath, 131, 133, 155 

 Westmorland, 4, 12, 15, 18, 27, 

 32, 37. 47, 50, 54. 60, 153. 

 155 



West of England, The, 191, 278 

 Wexford, 131, 133, 155 

 Wheat free, 37 



in the United Kingdom, Total 



of, 170 

 Whisky expenditure (Ireland), 140 



on holidays (Scotland), 113 



