s, 106, 207, 238, 256.

Education Acts, 292, 297.

Egypt, imports from, 323.

Eighteenth century, general characteristics of, 162.

Electricity applied to vegetables, 236.

Elevator, hay and straw, 304.

Elkington of Princethorpe, 213-4, 230, 271.

Ellis, Chiltern and Vale Farming, 180.

Ellman, John, 217, 345.

Enclosers prosecuted in Star Chamber, 120.

Enclosure, 74-82, 85, 92, 96, 97, 119, 173, 182, 194, 228, 252-261;
agreement as to, 98;
acts of, 119, 163, 196, 231, 233, 252, 253, 258;
amount of, exaggerated, 121;
different kinds of, 73, 119, 165, 196;
eighteenth century, 163, 165, 173, 182, 183, 194, 196, 253;
evils of, 194, 195, 252-3, 254-61, 316;
expense of, 196, 252;
non-parliamentary,165, 253;
a deed of, 75;
a sign of progress, 76, 114, 139, 145-8, 253;
legislation against, 79, 80, 120;
checked, 120.

England, appearance of, in fifteenth century, 78;
in the seventeenth, 120-1.

English invaders, 1.

Entails, barred, 122.

Essex, 62, 78, 106, 128, 173, 190, 225, 286, 295, 306, 309, 319.

Estates, great, accumulation of, 123;
advantages of, 322;
often a loss, 321.

Evelyn, John, 127, 149.

Evesham, Vale of, 318.

Ewes, milking of, 33, 64, 200.

Exhibition, Great, 287, 304.

Exmoor sheep, 344, 346.

Exporting country, England ceases to be an, 161, 163.

Exports of butter and cheese, 326-7.

Exports of corn, 63n., 64, 70, 159-161, 183, 185, 242, 267, 348-9;
reaches its maximum, 186;
of livestock, 325-6;
of wool, 39, 69, 172, 327.

Extensive cultivation, 2.

Extent of the Manor, 10.

Eyton, Mr., 339.

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Faggots, price of, 114.

Fairs for hops, 171;
horses, 105;
sheep, 172n.;
wool, 172n.

Fallows, utilized, 112, 177, 181, 191, 195;
in 1877, 1907, 331;
in 1850, 353.

Families employed on common and on enclosed land, 195.

Farm or feorm, 5.

Farmer, day's work of, in seventeenth century, 134;
discontent of, 127-8, 184;
financial position of, 101, 103, 156, 162, 184, 195, 204, 212-3, 243,
247, 257-8, 264-5, 293, 307, 308, 310, 320;
growing more skilful, 101, 132.

_Farmer's Letters_, Young's, 192.

Farmhouses, 51, 101, 116, 119, 213, 226.

Farming, bad, 273, 281;
improvement in, 28, 111, 113, 115, 132, 160, 162, 192, 204, 211, 221,
229, 244, 265, 267, 271, 274, 275, 281, 288.

Farming calendar, 17, 124.

Farms, in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 116-7;
size of (1768), 202.

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