Note 165n — INDEX
Reading edition
[367] Six Centuries of Work and Wages, p. 472.
[368] See Baker, Record of Seasons and Prices, p. 185.
[369] Eden, State of the Poor, iii p. cvii; Thorold Rogers, Work and Wages, p. 396.
[370] In Herefordshire at this time it was 11/2d. per lb.
[371] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 86.
[372] Eden, op. cit. i. 286.
[373] Ibid. i. 498.
[374] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 71.
[375] Smith, Memoirs of Wool, ii. 93.
[376] John Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 45. In 1712, a normal season, 48 acres of wheat at Southwick in Hants produced 16 bushels per acre, 45 acres of barley 12 bushels per acre, 30 acres of oats 24 bushels per acre; at the same place 240 sheep realized 8s. each, cows 65s., calves £1, horses £6, hay 25s. a ton (Hampshire Notes and Queries, iii. 120).
[377] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 42.
[378] Collections, iv. 142.
[379] Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 109.
[380] Tour (ed. 1724), i. 87.
[381] Ellis, Chiltern and Vale Farming, p. 353.
[382] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 175.
[383] Ellis, Chiltern and Vale Farming, p. 260.
[384] J. Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 112.
[385] Ibid. p. 92. About 1757 Lucerne, hitherto little grown in England, took its place in the rotation of crops.
[386] Ibid. p. 130.
[387] A General Treatise on Husbandry (1726), i. 72; cf. c.
[388] The black cattle seem to have been spread very generally over England, according to previous writers and to Defoe, who often mentions them. He saw a 'prodigious quantity' in the meadows by the Waveney in Norfolk.—Tour, i. 97.
[389] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 76.
[390] Slater, English Peasantry, p. 52.
[391] Tour (ed. 1724), i. (1) 97, and iii. (2) 73.
[392] Ibid. i. 63.
[393] J. Lawrence, New System of Agriculture, p. 151.
[394] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 110.
[395] Country Gentleman and Farmer's Director (1726), p. 7.
[396] Defoe, Tour, i. 87.
[397] Defoe, Tour (3rd ed.), i. 81.
[398] Defoe, Tour (ed. 1724), ii. 1, 134.
[399] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 160; see also Smith, Memoirs of Wool, ii. 169, where the sheep of Leominster, of Cotteswold, and of the Isle of Wight are said to be the best in 1719. The great market for sheep was Weyhill Fair, and Stourbridge Fair was a great wool market.
[400] The West Country Farmer, a Representation of the Decay of Trade, 1737.
[401] Memoirs of Wool, ii. 243.
[402] Ibid. ii. 399.
[403] Farmer's Letters (3rd ed.), p. 27.
[404] Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, ii. 384.
[405] Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, ii. 458.
[406] Ormerod, Cheshire, i. 129. These words were written about 1656.
[407] See Victoria County History: Rutland, Agriculture. Stilton was eaten in the same condition as many prefer it now, 'with the mites round it so thick that they bring a spoon for you to eat them.'
[408] Defoe, Tour, i. (1) 78. Cheshire cheese was 2d. to 21/2d. per lb., Cheddar 6d. to 8d. in 1724, an extraordinary difference.
[409] Bradley, i. 172.
[410] Preface to Horse-hoeing Husbandry, (ed. 1733).
[411] Horse-hoeing Husbandry, p. vi.
[412] The West Country Farmer, above quoted, says wheat growing (in 1737) paid little. Before a bushel can be sold it costs £4 an acre, and the crop probably fetches half the money.
[413] R.A.S.E. Journ. (3rd Ser.), ii. 20.
[414] Cullum, Hawsted, p. 216.
[415] Tooke, History of Prices, i. 35.
[416] Wheat averaged:
1718-22about27s. 1730 about30s. 1750 about30s.
1724"36s. 1732"24s. 1755"35s.
1725"46s. 1736"30s. 1760"38s.
1726"35s. 1740"42s. 1765"42s.
1728"52s. 1744"23s.
[417] Ellis, Chiltern and Vale Farming, p. 209. Nothing is charged for tithe and taxes.
[418] Ibid. p. 352.
[419] See above, p. 177, also p. 199 for Young's estimate in 1770.
[420] Nothing is charged for the manure which was carted and spread.
[421] John Trusler, Practical Husbandry, p. 28.
[422] Country Gentleman and Farmer's Director (1726), p. xiii.