FOOTNOTES: 

[367] Six Centuries of Work and Wages, p. 472.

[368] See Baker, Record of Seasons and Prices, p. 185.

[369] Eden, State of the Poor, iii p. cvii; Thorold Rogers, Work and Wages, p. 396.

[370] In Herefordshire at this time it was 1-1/2d. per lb.

[371] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 86.

[372] Eden, op. cit. i. 286.

[373] Ibid. i. 498.

[374] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 71.

[375] Smith, Memoirs of Wool, ii. 93.

[376] John Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 45.  In 1712, a normal season, 48 acres of wheat at Southwick in Hants produced 16 bushels per acre, 45 acres of barley 12 bushels per acre, 30 acres of oats 24 bushels per acre; at the same place 240 sheep realized 8s. each, cows 65s., calves L1, horses L6, hay 25s. a ton (Hampshire Notes and Queries, iii. 120).

[377] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 42.

[378] Collections, iv. 142.

[379] Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 109.

[380] Tour (ed. 1724), i. 87.

[381] Ellis, Chiltern and Vale Farming, p. 353.

[382] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 175.

[383] Ellis, Chiltern and Vale Farming, p. 260.

[384] J. Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 112.

[385] Ibid. p. 92.  About 1757 Lucerne, hitherto little grown in England, took its place in the rotation of crops.

[386] Ibid. p. 130.

[387] A General Treatise on Husbandry (1726), i. 72; cf. c.

[388] The black cattle seem to have been spread very generally over England, according to previous writers and to Defoe, who often mentions them.  He saw a ‘prodigious quantity’ in the meadows by the Waveney in Norfolk.—­Tour, i. 97.

[389] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 76.

[390] Slater, English Peasantry, p. 52.

[391] Tour (ed. 1724), i. (1) 97, and iii. (2) 73.

[392] Ibid. i. 63.

[393] J. Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 151.

[394] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 110.

[395] Country Gentleman and Farmer’s Director (1726), p. 7.

[396] Defoe, Tour, i. 87.

[397] Defoe, Tour (3rd ed.), i. 81.

[398] Defoe, Tour (ed. 1724), ii. 1, 134.

[399] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 160; see also Smith, Memoirs of Wool, ii. 169, where the sheep of Leominster, of Cotteswold, and of the Isle of Wight are said to be the best in 1719.  The great market for sheep was Weyhill Fair, and Stourbridge Fair was a great wool market.

[400] The West Country Farmer, a Representation of the Decay of Trade, 1737.