Allowances, parish, 238, 241, 257, 284.

Almaine, corn from, 20.

Almonds, 93, 136.

Amalgamation of farms, 29, 46, 47, 95, 119, 120, 162, 202, 258, 317.

America,
  gold discoveries in, 287;
  imports from, 262, 293, 323-4.

Ancaster, Earl of, estate of, 321.

Andover, 39.

Anti-Corn Law League, 280.

Apples, 15, 65, 93, 129, 130, 131, 135-6, 143, 171, 186-9, 329, 332.
  (See Prices.)

Apprentices, 108.

Apricots, 93, 136.

Arable district of England (1893), 306n.

Arable fields, 1, 2, 4, 16, 73.

Arable land, 56, 99, 100, 195;
  amount of, in 1688, 155;
  decrease of, 59;
  extent of, in Domesday, 19;
  in 1770, 199;
  in 1850, 353;
  in 1877 and 1907, 332;
  preponderance of, 25, 30;
  produce of, in 1688, 155;
  suffers more than grass, 248, 266, 281, 285, 286, 306;
  value of, 19, 40, 58, 115-7, 139.

Arch, Joseph, 290-2.

Ardley, Inquisition of, 9.

Argentina, imports from, 324.

Arley, Upper, wine made at, 145.

Artificial grasses, see Clover, improve commons, 166.

Ash timber, value of, 137.

Assize of beer, 13, 14n.

Association, British, 336.

Average crops of corn (1770), 197.
  (See under Wheat, Oats, Barley, &c.)

Average size of farms in 1768, 202.

Averagium, 10.

Australia, gold discoveries in, 287;
  imports from, 324;
  sheep introduced into, 328;
  wool from, 328.

Axholme, 123, 260, 311, 318.

Ayrshires, 339, 343.

B

Bacon, Lord, 322,

Bacon, ‘the necessary meate’ of the labourer, 102, 140;
  price of, see Prices.

Badger, a corn dealer, 134.

Bailiff, 12, 29, 49, 51, 61, 71, 103, 109, 110, 137, 139, 355.

Bakewell, 146, 163-7, 214-7, 226, 233, 343, 344.

Balance sheet, estate, 307;
  farm, in 1805, 247;
  in 1888, 309.

Balks, 3.

Ball, John, 60.

Banbury cheese, 173.

Bank Restriction Act, 239, 240, 263.

Barking Nunnery, vineyard at, 144.

Barley, 20, 33, 36, 65, 91, 124, 135, 142, 155, 182, 227, 331-2, 353;
  cost of, per acre, 198;
  produce, per acre, 165n., 197-8;
  profit on, 179, 180. (See Prices.)

Barns, size of, 51.

Barren years at end of seventeenth century, 115, 157.

Basic slag, 304.

Bassingthorpe, 103.

Bates, Thomas, 274, 338.

Bath, wine made at, 145.

Beale, John, 128, 130.

Beans, 17, 33, 49, 124, 155, 187, 201, 262, 331-2, 353;
  cost of growing, 199;
  profit on, 180. (See Prices.)

Bedford, Duke of, 225, 318, 321.