INDEX 



367 



Prices : 



Sixteenth century, 80, 87, 89, 95, 96, 



102-6, 109, 355. 

 Straw, 179, 180. 

 Tenth century, 19. 

 Thirteenth century, 33, 35, 39, 355. 

 Twelfth century, 20. 

 Vetches, 155. 

 Waggons, 203-4. 

 Wheat, 20, 35, 66, 69, 89, no, 114, 



133. 134, 138, 142, 155. 157. 160, 163, 



164, 179, 186, 223, 231, 237, 238, 239, 

 ' 240, 241, 242-4, 247-8, 262, 265, 



277-8, 281, 293, 306, 312, 334, 347, 



350-3> 355- 

 Wine, 145. 

 Wool, 39, 40, 80, 89, 96, 114, 118, 119, 



142, 163, 172, 173, 223, 239, 242, 



285-6, 306, 312, 327, 328, 329, 347. 

 Prickly comfrey, 237. 

 Proclamation as to wages and prices, 42. 

 Production, increased cost of, 295, 313. 

 Prosperity, agricultural, 28, loi, 114, 



163, 183, 2IO-I, 229, 243-4, 246, 



264, 287 ; during French War, 243-6, 



247, 264. 

 Protecting fruit from blight, &c., 187. 

 Protection, effect of, 250, 278-9, 281 ; 



highest limit of, 248; 265, 266, 277-9. 

 Provender rents, 6. 

 Pnming fruit trees, 131, 136. 

 Pulverization of soil, 175. 



Quarter Sessions, assessment of wages 



by, 108. 

 Quartly, Francis, 341. 

 Quia Emptores, statute of, 29. 

 Quinces, 15, 136. 

 Quit, notice to, 300, 301, 302. 



R 



Rabbits, rearing, 174; reserved to land- 

 lord, 115. 

 Railway rates, 295-6. 

 Rake, horse, 304. 

 Raleigh introduces potatoes, 106. 

 Rams, ewes to, 126, 138 ; price of, 202, 



215. 235- 

 Ramsey, 72. 

 Raspberries, 331. 

 Rates, 229, 238, 241, 245, 247, 248, 



249. 255, 269, 284, 295, 296, 307, 



314- 

 Rathgib, Jacob, 104. 



Reapmg, cost of, 34, 44, 65, 71, 109, 



no, 138, 177, 179, 180, 246, 348, 



354 ; machines, 303-4; time for, 124; 



versus mowing corn, 135. 

 Red Polled caitle, 343. 

 Reeve, 12 ; duties of a, 17. 

 Reigate, Flaunchford near, 64. 

 Rents : 

 Twelfth century, 27. 

 Thirteenth century, 36, 57, 75, 348. 

 Fourteenth century, 40, 41, 46, 65, 75, 



348. 

 Fifteenth century, 57, 58, 66, 348. 

 Sixteenth century, 66, 76, 95, 115, 116, 



348. 

 Seventeenth century, 115, 116, 117, 



127, 133, n% 143. 155, 161, 348, 



354- 

 Eighteenth century, 116, 177, 179, 183, 



189, i93n., 224, 227, 328, 348. 

 Nineteenth century, 243, 246, 248, 264, 



266, 278, 285-6,287,297,304,306-9, 



310, 3i9n., 321-2. 

 Repairs, see Buildings, farm. 

 Restrictive covenants, see Cultivation 



clauses. 

 Revival, recent, in agriculture, 320. 

 Revolt, Peasants', 60. 

 Revolution, agricultural and industrial, 



162. 

 Ridges, high, 129, 175. 

 Rinderpest, see Cattle plagues. 

 Riots, 185, 223, 262, 266. 

 Ripon, 147. 

 Roads, 21,68, 105, 138, 171, 175, 182, 



204, 210, 219, 220-3, 269, 274, 295. 

 Rock and Far Forest district, 318. 

 Rogers, Thorold, 107, 229. 

 Roller, farm, in seventeenth century, 1 35. 

 Rolling, 166, 194. 

 Romney Marsh sheep, 344. 

 Romsey Abbey, I5n. 

 Roots, few, used for cows, 200 {see Tur- 

 nips). 

 Roscommon sheep, 343. 

 Roses, 143. 



Ross, John, of Warwick, 76. 

 Rot, see Sheep rot. 

 Rotation of crops {see Four-course and 



Three-field system) 225, 275. 

 Rothamsted, 275. 

 Roundsman system, 239. 

 Royal Agricultural Society, 273-4,281, 



308. 

 Royal Society, helps agricalttire, 1 14. 



