pabilities of the soil, 301.

Inns, markets for produce, 323.

Inoculation of fruit trees, 131.

Intensive cultivation, 2.

Irish imports, 161, 262, 324-5, 328;
labourers, 209, 306.

Irrigation, 113, 132, 217.

Isle of Wight, 172n.

Italy, exports to, 349;
wool exported to, 39, 327.

J

Jamaica, wool from, 328.

Jersey cattle, 275, 339, (_See_ Alderney.)

Jus faldae, 64.

Justices regulate wages, 107.

K

Kent, 40, 128, 143-7, 157, 171, 173, 186, 259, 265, 283, 295, 306n., 309.

Kentish
cattle, 168;
sheep, 343, 344.

Kerry cattle, 343.

Kett, rising of, 96.

Ketton, 233, 235.

Kilns, hop, 151.

King's, Gregory, statistics, 120, 140, 141, 155, 258-9, 260, 353.

Kingston, Lord, estate rents of, 116.

Knights Hospitallers' estates, 40.

L

Labour,
cost of, per acre, 313;
services, 6, 12, 25, 27, 42, 45, 56, 61.

Labourer, character of, in eighteenth century, 175, 184, 201, 204,
205, 210;
condition of, at end of eighteenth century, 237-9;
condition of, in nineteenth century, 257, 266-8, 269, 270, 279,
283-4, 285, 290-2, 297, 311-2, 313-4, 315, 320, 355;
decrease of, 305, 311n., 315;
life of, in Middle Ages,53, 54, 67, 71, 103;
made a land-less man by enclosure, 196, 257;
number of (1688), 156;
savings of, 102-3, 156;
sports of, 55;
the home of the, 52, 158;
wages of, _see_ Wages.

Lambs, to fall March 25, 126.

Lammas, 4, 112, 137.

Lancashire, 44, 78, 106, 110, 147, 163, 167, 207, 216, 219, 282,
283, 284, 309, 312, 316, 320, 343, 346.

Land, value of, 19, 36, 40, 66, 117, 133, 149, 183, 243, 286-7,
293, 304, 310, 328, 348.

Landlords,
absentee, 184, 191;
of the fourteenth century, 48;
new class of, 59;
houses of the 103 (_see_ Cottages);
improve estates, 132, 162, 224, 232, 255, 268, 320;
protectionists, 160-1;
ignorant of estate management, 175, 193, 249, 281;
in nineteenth century, 265, 281, 304, 307, 309, 320-2;
position, weakened, 309;
relations of, and tenant, 218, 226, 282-3, 299, 301, 322;
suffered most from present depression, 320;
reserve sporting rights, 115;
take to farming, 182.

Landlordship, 6.

Lawes, Sir John, 275, 276, 314, 319.

Lawrence, John, 152, 165, 166, 167, 173, 337.

Laxton, Notts, 22.

Leases,45, 56, 57, 65, 81, 97, 113, 115-6, 121-2, 178, 218, 219,
263n., 272, 282, 283.

Leicester sheep, 215-6, 235, 274, 275, 343, 344.

Leicestershire, 8, 78, 79, 12