LANDMARKS IN ENGLISH AGRICULTURE 



1086. Domesday inquest, most cultivated land in tillage. Annual value 



of land about id. an acre. 

 1216-72. Henry III. Assize of Bread and Ale. 

 1272-1307. Edward I. General progress. Walter of Henley. 

 1307. Edward II. Decline. 

 131 5. Great famine. 

 1337. Export of wool prohibited. 

 1348-9. Black Death. Heavy blow to manorial system. Many 



demesne lands let, and much land laid down to grass. 

 1351. Statute of Labourers. 

 1360. Export of com forbidden. 

 1 38 1. Villeins' revolt. 



1393. Richard II allows export of corn under certain conditions. 

 1463. Import of wheat under 6^. %d. prohibited. 

 End of fifteenth century. Increase of enclosure. 

 1523. Fitzherbert's Surveying and Husbandry. 

 1540. General rise in prices and rents begins. 

 1549. Kett's rebellion. The last attempt of the English peasant to 



obtain redress by force. 

 1586. Potatoes introduced. 

 1601. Poor Law Act of Elizabeth. 

 1645. Turnips and clover introduced as field crops. 

 1662. Statute of Parochial Settlement. 

 1664. Importation of cattle, sheep, and swine forbidden. 

 1688. Bounty of 5^. per quarter on export of wheat, and high duty on 



import. 

 1733. Tull publishes his Horse-hoeing Husbandry. 

 1739. Great sheep-rot. 



1750. Exports of corn reached their maximum. 

 1760. Bakewell began experimenting. 

 1760 (about). Industrial and agrarian revolution, and great increase of 



enclosure. 

 1764. Elkington's new drainage system. 



1773. Wheat allowed to be imported at a nominal duty of td. a quarter 

 when over 48^^. 



