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INDEX 



Swedes, 227, 237, 276, 28b, 331-2^333- 

 ' Swing' riots, 266. 



Taltarnm's case, effect of, 122. 



Tamworth pigs, 346. 



Taunton, manor of, 18; good farming 



near, 128. 

 Taxes, 247, 263-4, 3o7> S'o; weight 



of, 183, 191, 229, 245, 246, 249, 250, 



263, 320, 321. 

 Tea, drinking, 205, 207, 213, 291 ; price 



of, 205. 

 Teams, composition of, 16. 

 Telford, 220, 222. 

 Tenant farmers, assist in agricultural 



progress, 162; number of, 141, 156; 



origin of, 46, 119. 

 Tenant-right, 283. 

 Teeswater cattle, 337. 

 Tewkesbury, 255. 

 Thatchers, 139, 354. 

 Thomson of Banchory, 276. 

 Thomey and Wobnrn estates, 321. 

 Three-field system, 4, 99. 

 Threshing, cost of, 34, 44, 65, 163, 179, 



180, 198-9, 246; machine, 230, 236- 



7, 282 ; time for, 17, 126. 

 Tillage, decrease of, 79, 80, 94; en- 

 couragement of, 79, 108, 1 1 7- 8; 



reaction against, 1x8. {See Arable, 



and Grass.) 

 Timber {see Oak timber), 227; spoils 



crops, 282. 

 Tiptree, 319. 

 Tithe, dispute, 102; on turnips, 166; 



rent charge, 270. 

 Tithes, 116, 144, 151, 189, 195, 230, 



232, 247, 248, 249, 250, 270, 305, 



307. 

 Tooke, 179, 266. 

 Tours, Young's, 190, 192. 

 Towns, movement of rural population 



towards, 64, 70, 108, 185, 192, 195, 



209, 315, 316-7. 

 Townshend,Lord, 163, 182-3, 192, 193. 

 Treatise on Husbandry, 33, 54. 

 Tnll, Jethro, 152, 163, 174-7, ^1^> ^80, 



183, 193, 200-1, 204. 

 Turkeys, 170. 



Turkish dominions, imports from, 323. 

 Turnip cutters, 276. 

 Turnip fly, remedies for, 166. 

 Turnips, 03, iii, 112, 115, 141, 143, 



157, 164, 166, 168, 178, 183, 251, 



331-2. 333 ; cost of growing, in 1 770, 

 198 ; injure wool, 329 ; sheep first fat- 

 tened on, 112; spread of, in eighteenth 

 century, 165, 166, 179, 191, 194, 200, 

 201, 225; varieties of, in 1726, 165. 



Tusser, 63, 90, 91, 92, loi, 102, 105, 

 III, 124, 126. 



Two-field system, 3. 



' Twopenny ', 216. 



U 

 Underwood, value of, in seventeenth 



century, 137. 

 Unions, Agricultural Labourers', 291-2, 

 United States, see America. 

 Unreasonable disturbance, 302. 

 Upwey, 318. 



Vaughan, Rowland, 132-3. 

 Vegetables, 15, 93, 106, ii2n., 143, 



236 n. 

 Ventnor, vineyard at, 145. 

 Vermin, destruction of, 82, 100, 244. 

 Vermuyden, Cornelius, 123. 

 Vetches, 125, 155, 331. 

 Village, the, of the eighteenth century, 



164. 

 Village smith, the, 35. 

 Villeins, 6, 7, 8, 18, 24, 29, 42, 45 ; 



disappearance of, 46, 59, 60, 105. 

 Vills or villages, 2, 5, 7, 15, 98, 119. 

 Vineyards, 15, 16, iii, 144-5. 

 Virgate, 8. 

 Virginia, potatoes from, 106 ; wool 



from, 328. 



W 



Wages : 

 Twelfth century, 27. 

 Thirteenth century, 27, 28, 34, 348, 



355- 

 Fourteenth century, 27, 28, 41, 43, 59, 



61, 62, 348, 355. 

 Fifteenth century, 67, 71, 348, 355. 

 Sixteenth century, 67, 87, 348, 355. 

 Seventeenth century, 119, 138, 139, 348, 



355- 

 Eighteenth century, 163, 164, 184, 203, 

 205-6, 210, 237, 238, 240, 285, 348, 



354-5- 

 Nineteenth century, 241, 242, 249, 267, 

 268, 283-4, 285, 290-2, 297, 309, 311, 

 312, 313, 315, 355» 356. 

 Wages, on a farm in 1805, 247 ; regu- 



