INDEX.] 



Jamaica. 



Ill, 



263 



270 



35» 

 464 



411 



4S0 



245 

 114 



124 

 ■53 



. 23 

 118 

 246 

 262 

 282 



338 



1753 Cinncirr.on tiiUivated in Janijica— the afTctnbly ( 



acquire Mr. Eafl's botanic garden — tlic 

 bread-fruit introduced - . iv, 



— — Port Antonio iindc-a tree port 

 1795 Monte:go bay dedroyed by fii-e«— a war wjth 

 the Maroon negroes terminated by tlie tranf- 

 portation ot tliein to Canudit 

 1798 Sugar and rum exiorted tu Great Britain 



Janjfen, Sir Stephen Theodore,\\\'i lionourable coii- 

 dntt to liis creditors - - iii, 



1768 He lowers tile price of mackerel by premiums 



Japan— Sec ILaJl- India company, Holl.md. 

 1542 Difcovered Ijy the Portiigiiefe - - ii, 89 

 jjjo Produce and ti;ide of Japan . - 107 



Eaft-India conipjiy have expended ^50,00 in 

 endeavours to ciLilliOi trad': with japan iv, 

 ita^\Jeva, two iilands fo named, defcribed by Ma- 

 rco Polo - - - i, 

 '553 Jenkinjm, Ardony, .obtains commercial privi- 

 leges from the Turki 111 fultan - ii, 

 1558 He iravels from RulTia to Perlia i:i order 10 

 cftablifti a trade — pub'illies the Hrft map of 

 RulTia 

 IJ71 Goes ambafTador to RulTia 



Jerfey See — Guernjiy, iBc. 

 1000* Jerufalem temple built - - i 



54*Teniple phuidcred by the Romans 

 660 J. reforled to lor commerce and devotion 241, 

 87 1 -900 T!ie patriarch fends prefents to K. Alfred 

 1028 Faftories, &c cftablillied by the Amalfians 

 1165 The Chriftians of Jerufalem allowed free trade 



in Egypt 

 17S1 jfe/uilsiari may be imported by neutrals 



Jcwds — See Diamonds, iSc. 

 i8oo*Jewel3 of gold and (ilver in ufe 

 J770 Punifhment for receiving Ifolen jewels 

 5oo||7'<<'-s fettle in Italy . . - 



710 jews in Spain invite the Sarecens 

 750 Are fettled in the Northumbrian kingdom 

 813 And in France - - - .. 



115611 London their headquarters in England 

 1160II Notices, of the Jews given by Benjamin 

 ZI89-1190 Dreadful malTacres of the Jews in En 

 land 

 The Jews ufurers for the king's emolument 350 n 

 1198 Land mortgaged to a Jew in England - 35^ 



X200 Their ufurious dealings punifhed, or fanc- 

 tioned, bythe king — an office eftablifhed for 

 managing the revenue extorted from them 360 

 liio Jews tortured by King John, fly outof England 37* 

 1.244-1272 Squeezed by K. Henry III, whomortga- 

 .gces them to liis broih;?r— fome of them 

 take 2<^per week, for the ufe of 20/ 395, 422 



1277 They are fubjefled to a regular capitation tax 



and fundry regulations - - 429 



1278 Are treated riguroully — become rcgardlefs of 



charaifler — many are hanged - - 431 



1285 Arc excluded from the (Tatute of merchants 442 

 1290 Are perfecuted and banifhed, and their pro- 

 perty feiz,ed by the king - - 4.-tg 

 1655 Jews are allowed to return to England ii, 465 

 1,753 An aft pairi.d for naturalizing them - iii,^ 301 



1754 The aft repealed . - . 302 

 1800*^0^ — fJate of commerce and the arts according 



to his book - - - i, 6 



877 Judda,ov Jidda, the chief port of the Red fea. i,. 257 



1761 Jui/o-fj fixed for lite - . - iii, 347 



Jury, uncertain if introduced by Alfred, or 



1, 



I, 6 

 111, 499 

 220 

 243 

 249 

 *5' 

 33° 

 335 



3+9 



earlier 



i, 265 



J3S.4, i42t j/\££iS ordered to be meafurcd 1,589, 635 

 947 Kermes, a rich dye in Armenia - i,. 269 



\*Kerne (apparently Mogadore) the moft remote 



Carthaginian tplony .. . i, 53 



Wild ideas refpefling the pofitionoflt i, 53 n; 



947 Khorafan produces excellent (ilk - i, %(,<)■ 



947. A'^Mi- people fell their cliiUlren - i, 269 



1196 Kiddsfar caichinir fijh prohibited . i, ^^-j 



1215 ^nd again by NIagna cliarta . 3110 



1351 And again by parliament - . 544. 



147 811 Kings Citncerntd in trade— \.\\c\r competition ruin- 

 ous to merchants . . i, 698 

 1391 Kis, an entrepot of oriental trade . i, 41,0 

 Suppofed to be alfo called Nikrokis - ^36 n. 

 1463, 1484 Knii'rs, in order to favour thofe made 



in E'-.gland, mull not be imported i, 67(5, 703 



1563 (Said to be) now firif made in London 



(N.BTothc above proofs oftlie earlier mnn- 

 ufafhire in England m.iy be added the Itill- 

 carlier teftiniony of Chaucer, that knives 

 were made in Shcfiieldin his time.) 



15G4 Importation again prohibited 



1 764- 1787 Knox, John, frequently \-ilited the weft 

 coail of Scotland with .he patriotic view 

 of promoting fillieries and improve- 

 rients, and publifhed a View of the Biitifli 

 empire ■ - . iv 



1749 A'o«?nfiyJ(r^, fhipping and trade . iii, 



■"759 VefTels arrived and failed 



138 



«3«^ 



»7J- 

 3 '5. 



1351 A^ABOVRERSUxKcnnv, under the diminution 

 ot money, demand wages in proportion — 

 their wages; are fixed by law, and they are 

 prevented from removing - i, 



The confequence is an increafe of cunningand 



fraudulent tricks among workmen, &c 

 1359 Ns^^ penalties upon labourei's removing, and 



cities no longer allowed to llielter them 

 1388 More rigorous laws now enacted 

 10S9 Judices direfted to fix their wages 



1548 They are prohibited from combining - ii, 

 1563 Ait for regulating fervants, (Jvc 

 1497 ifl^rai^or difcovered by Cabot in the fcrvice of- 



England — called afterwards Corterealisand 

 ElTotiland - . ii, ,3, jo 



1763 Annexed to the government of Newfoundland iii, 377 



1765 Account of the fifliery and trade with the na- 



tives - - . ^2j 



1766 An excellent filhing ffation 



1767 State of the fifliery 



1773 Eifhing fettlements permitted upon the land 

 1635 /.acf made in Engl, fcaled— foreign prohibitedii, 388 

 1707 Prohibition repealed tor fake of woolen manuf. 737 

 1767 Foreign lace and needle-work prohibited iii, 463-. 

 1779 Foreign lace to be fealed at each end - ejyi 



Tiie manufaffure hurtful to the eyes . iv, 80 n 

 ^oi* Lacedemonians \gnor\\nl of geography 

 404*Thcy dclhoy Athens, and command the fea 

 394*They lofe their fupcrioriiy 

 1633 Lacquer varnijh introduced in England . ii 

 1799 Z.a>7(-a/?fr merchants get ((-xchequcf bills iv 



i%.^!)*Land fold to Abraham, but teems not gener- 

 ally appropriated 

 i739*Land ibid to Jacob 



590 Eight hides given for a book in England 

 694 Rent of ten hides of land in England 

 1066 Some fales of land in England 

 1470 Suppoled worth only ten years piirchafe 

 14X9 Too much land in palhirage — parliament order 



farm houfes 10 be kept up 

 1491 Proprietors of land permitted to fell it, a law of 



great importance . . - 



1544 Land got from the king by over-grants to be 



paid for at twenty years purchafe - ii, 93 



200 acres rented for^^io - - _ q, 



1549 An infurreftion occalioned by the exceflivc 



quantity of parture land - - 104 



Before 1624 uftially ibid at J2 years purchafe 336, 630 



54» 

 5+3 



56 1 

 600 

 60 1 

 loi 

 ■37 



438- 

 472. 

 534 



62. 



68. 

 69. 



3775 

 . 4» 



'. + 



7 

 24U 

 242 

 2K7 

 685. 



712. 



7.6. 



