Forncett, manor of, 25, 45, 46.

Fountains Abbey, 81.

Four-course rotation, 183.

Four-field system, 99.

Fourteenth century, characteristics of, 38.

Fowler, John, 304.

Fox, the, 140, 244.

France, exports to, 349;
  imports from, 243, 323;
  livestock in, 334;
  small holders of, 202-3;
  wheat crops in, 332.

Freeholders, see also Yeoman, 119, 121-2.

Freemen, 7.

Free tenants, 24, 29, 45.

Free trade, 161, 277-81, 323;
  effect of, 281, 284, 288, 293, 296.

French War, great, see Wars.

Fruit, 15, 93, 128, 143;
  imports of 305.

Fruit-growing in seventeenth century, 129-131, 132, 136;
  in eighteenth century, 171, 186-9;
  in nineteenth century, 319, 329, 330.

Furlongs, 3, 118.

Furniture of manor house, 52;
  labourer’s home, 52.

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Gafol, 9, 10.

Galloway cattle, 169, 343.

Game, damage by, 302.

Game law, the first, 55.

Gang system, 292.

Geese, 34, 170. (See Poultry.)

Gentry, at the Revolution, 156;
  estates of under Walpole, 183;
  status of 50, 97;
  supplanted, 122, 128, 137, 140, 156, 184, 211, 312, 310. (See Landlords and Squire).

Gerard, 106, 111.

‘Gerefa, the’, 15.

Germany, exports to, 63;
  imports from, 20, 66, 69, 241, 243, 262, 323-4, 328;
  livestock in, 334;
  wheat crops in, 332n.

Gilbert, 275.

Gilbert’s Act, 237.

Gilbey, Sir W.,335.

Glamorganshire, vineyards in, 145.

Glastonbury Abbey, 13.

Gleaning, 133.

Gloucestershire, 19, 78, 128, 136, 143, 144, 173, 207, 295, 344.

Gloves, gifts of, 62.

Gold premium, 305.

Googe, Barnaby, 144, 173.

Gooseberries, 331.

Grafting in seventeenth century, 130.

Grain crops, chief source of lord’s income, 25.

Grapes, 136, 329 (see Vineyards).

Grass, acreage under, in 1877 and 1907, 331-2;
  in 1850, 353;
  arable land laid down to, 56, 58, 75, 79, 91, 93-4, 117-9, 120, 196,
    219, 231, 305;
  converting, to tillage, 231, 263;
  more profitable than arable, 199;
  seeds, 165, 191, 194, 226-7.

Grass land, price of, see Pasture and meadow, price of;
  ploughed up, 186, 218, 245.

Grass section of England in 1893, 306n.

Grasshoppers, plague of, 185.

Graziers, profits of, 184,

Greycoats of Kent, 259.

Ground Game Act, 303.

Guano, 232, 276.

Guernsey cattle, 342, 343.

Gun, the, in seventeenth century, 140.

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