st limit of, 248; 265, 266, 277-9.

Provender rents, 6.

Pruning fruit trees, 131, 136.

Pulverization of soil, 175.

Q

Quarter Sessions, assessment of wages by, 108.

Quartly, Francis, 341.

Quiet Emptores, statute of, 29.

Quinces, 15, 136.

Quit, notice to, 300, 301, 302.

R

Rabbits,
rearing, 174;
reserved to landlord, 115.

Railway rates, 295-6.

Rake, horse, 304.

Raleigh introduces potatoes, 106.

Rams,
ewes to, 126, 138;
price of, 202, 215, 235.

Ramsey, 72.

Raspberries, 331.

Rates, 229, 238, 241, 245, 247, 248, 249, 255, 269, 284, 295, 296,
307, 314.

Rathgib, Jacob, 104.,

Reaping,
cost of, 34, 44, 65, 71, 109, 110, 138, 177, 179, 180, 246, 348, 354;
machines, 303-4;
time for, 124;
versus mowing corn, 135.

Red Polled cattle, 343.

Reeve, 12;
duties of a, 17.

Reigate, Flaunchford near, 64.

Rents:
Twelfth century, 27.
Thirteenth century, 36, 57, 75, 348.
Fourteenth century, 40, 41, 46, 65, 75, 348.
Fifteenth century, 57, 58, 66, 348.
Sixteenth century, 66, 76, 95, 115, 116, 348.
Seventeenth century, 115, 116, 117, 127, 133, 139, 143, 155, 161,
348, 354.
Eighteenth century, 116, 177, 179, 183, 189, 193n., 224, 227, 328,
348.
Nineteenth century, 243, 246, 248, 264, 266, 278, 285-6, 287, 297,
304, 306-9, 310, 319n., 321-2.

Repairs, _see_ Buildings, farm.

Restrictive covenants, _see_ Cultivation clauses.

Revival, recent, in agriculture, 320.

Revolt, Peasants', 60.

Revolution, agricultural and industrial, 162.

Ridges, high, 129, 175.

Rinderpest, _see_ Cattle plagues.

Riots, 185, 223, 262, 366,

Ripon, 147.

Roads, 21, 68, 105, 138, 171, 175, 182, 204, 210, 219, 220-3, 269,
274, 295.

Rock and Far Forest district, 318,

Rogers, Thorold, 107, 229.

Roller, farm, in seventeenth century, 135.

Rolling, 166, 194.

Romney Marsh sheep, 344.

Romsey Abbey, 15n.

Roots, few, used for cows, 200 (_see_ Turnips).

Roscommon sheep, 343.

Roses, 143.

Ross, John, of Warwick, 76.

Rot, _see_ Sheep rot.

Rotation of crops (_see_ Four-course and Three-field system) 225, 275.

Rothamsted, 275.

Roundsman system, 239.

Royal Agrlctttonal Society, 273-4, 281, 308.

Royal Society, helps agriculture, 114.

Russia,
imports rom, 323-4;
wool from, 328.

Rutland, 22, 102, 109, 110, 120, 134, 143, 151, 255, 268, 306n.;
Dukes of, 115, 286.

Rye, 4, 16, 91, 125, 133, 138, 155;