Note 158n — INDEX
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[339] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae (ed. 1669), p. 10.
[340] Ibid. p. 124.
[341] Ibid. p. 124.
[342] Pomona (ed. 1664), p. 1.
[343] Ed. 1635, Book i, p. 175.
[344] Markham, op. cit. i. 188.
[345] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 38. Plot, however, in his Natural History of Staffordshire, 1686, says hemp and flax were sown in small quantities all over the county, p. 109.
[346] New System of Agriculture (ed. 1726), p. 113. Woad is still grown 'in some districts in England' (Morton, Cyclopaedia of Agriculture, ii. 1159), but in the Agricultural Returns of 1907 apparently occupies too small an acreage to entitle it to a separate mention.
[347] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 43.
[348] Tull, in his Horseshoeing Husbandry (p. 147), speaks of the drill as if already in use.
[349] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 205.
[350] The seedlip was a long-shaped basket suspended from the sower's shoulder and was usually made of wood.
[351] Horse-girths for securing pack-saddles.
[352] Houghton, about the same time, said England contained 28 to 29 million acres, of which 12 millions lay waste (Collections, iv. II). In 1907 the Board of Agriculture returned the total area of England and Wales, excluding water, at 37,130,344 acres.
[353] Eden, State of the Poor, i. 228.
[354] If we allow that most of the two last classes enumerated were country folk. For the decline of the yeoman class, see chap. xviii.
[355] Evelyn's Diary.
[356] Tooke, History of Prices, i. 23.
[357] Fowle, Poor Law, p. 63.
[358] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 66, says, 'the abuses complained of in the preamble (of the Act) did actually exist.'
[359] Hasbach, op. cit. pp. 67, 134, says the statute of 1662 did not entail so much evil by hindering migration as is generally supposed.
[360] Shropshire County Records: Abstracts of the orders made by the Court of Quarter Sessions, 1638-1782, pp. xxiv, xxv.
[361] See above, p. 70. 13 Eliz., c. 13. McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary (1852), p. 412.
[362] Cunningham, English Industry and Commerce, ii. 371.
[363] Political Arithmetic, pp. 27-34, 193, 276.
[364] Lecky, England in the Eighteenth Century, vi. 192.
[365] McPherson, Annals of Commerce, iii. 311.
[366] Ibid. ii. 706; iii. 221, 293.