Apprentices, 108. Apricots, 93, 136. Arable district of England (1893), 306n. Arable fields, 1, 2, 4, 16, 73. Arable land, 56, 99, 100, 195; amount of, in 1688, 155; decrease of, 59; extent of, in Domesday, 19; in 1770, 199; in 1850, 353; in 1877 and 1907, 332; preponderance of, 25, 30; produce of, in 1688, 155; suffers more than grass, 248, 266, 281, 285, 286, 306; value of, 19, 40, 58, 115-7, 139. Arch, Joseph, 290-2. Ardley, Inquisition of, 9. Argentina, imports from, 324. Arley, Upper, wine made at, 145. Artificial grasses, _see_ Clover, improve commons, 166. Ash timber, value of, 137. Assize of beer, 13, 14n. Association, British, 336. Average crops of corn (1770), 197. (_See under_ Wheat, Oats, Barley, &c.) Average size of farms in 1768, 202. Averagium, 10. Australia, gold discoveries in, 287; imports from, 324; sheep introduced into, 328; wool from, 328. Axholme, 123, 260, 311, 318. Ayrshires, 339, 343. B Bacon, Lord, 322, Bacon, 'the necessary meate' of the labourer, 102, 140; price of, _see_ Prices. Badger, a corn dealer, 134. Bailiff, 12, 29, 49, 51, 61, 71, 103, 109, 110, 137, 139, 355. Bakewell, 146, 163-7, 214-7, 226, 233, 343, 344. Balance sheet, estate, 307; farm, in 1805, 247; in 1888, 309. Balks, 3. Ball, John, 60. Banbury cheese, 173. Bank Restriction Act, 239, 240, 263. Barking Nunnery, vineyard at, 144. Barley, 20, 33, 36, 65, 91, 124, 135, 142, 155, 182, 227, 331-2, 353; cost of, per acre, 198; produce, per acre, 165n., 197-8; profit on, 179, 180. (_See_ Prices.) Barns, size of, 51. Barren years at end of seventeenth century, 115, 157. Basic slag, 304. Bassingthorpe, 103. Bates, Thomas, 274, 338. Bath, wine made at, 145. Beale, John, 128, 130. Beans, 17, 33, 49, 124, 155, 187, 201, 262, 331-2, 353; cost of growing, 199; profit on, 180. (_See_ Prices.) Bedford, Duke of, 225, 318, 321. Bedfordshire, 3, 18, 79, 120, 123, 238, 306. Beef, price of, _see_ Prices. Beer, 36, 329. Belgium, live stock in, 334; wheat crops in, 332n. Belvoir estate, 115, 286. Berkeley estates, 3, 27n., 35n., 48, 56, 64, 74, 75. Berkshire, 104, 175, 237, 284, 286, 306n. Berkshire Knotts, 345; pigs, 346. Berlin decrees, 242. Best, Henry, accounts of, 138-40. Bideford, 262. Biggleswade, 318. Birds eating fruit, 129. Black Death, 27, 41-3, 59, 75. Black Year, the, 294. Blight, Hop, 150. Blyth, 113, 127, 137, 152. Board of Agriculture, 192, 193, 214, 229-33, 255; (Government), 290. Bones for manure, 154-5, 273, 275-6, 299. Booth, Thomas, 337-8. Bordarii, 8, 11. Boston, 308, 318, 327. Boys' wages, 206. Bradley, 152, 167, 168-9, 170, 171, 181, 336. Brampton, 235. Bread, different kinds of, 54, 102, 206-7, 230; rye, 101, 134, 206; wheaten, a luxury, 101; common, 207, 240; made of turnips, 157; price of (_see_ Prices). Breeding of stock, 37, 146, 167, 215-7, 256, 273. Brentford, 157. Bridport, 262. Bright, John, 280.