Commissions, Royal, on Agriculture, &c., 260, 266, 289, 294-6, 300, 303, 304, 305, 311-14, 316, 318, 320, 329. Committees, Parliamentary, 256, 258, 263n., 266, 267. Common, John, 303. Common fields, 22, 26, 78, 112, 113, 118-9, 120, 194, 253, 258. Common land, 3, 145, 148; evils of, 148, 194, 256, 257; improvement of, 166. Common pasture, _see_ Pasture _and_ Meadows. Commons, advantages of, 165; extent of, in 1795, 231; rights of, lost, 253. Communities and corporations contrasted, 2. Commutation of labour services for money, 27, 45. Compensation for improvements, 296, 299-302. Competition, foreign, 296, 297, 312, 315, 319, 323-30. Consolidation of farms, _see_ Amalgamation. Contractors for labour, 209. Co-operation in agriculture, 1. Copyholders, 59, 121-2. Corn laws, 63, 64, 69, 70, 159, 160, 242, 248, 250, 265-6, 277-80. Cornwall, 136, 186, 295, 309, 318. Cost of living (1773-1800), 241. Cotarii, 8, 11, 25. Cotswold sheep, 233, 275, 343, 344; wool, famous, 172. Cottages, 52, 117, 121n., 139, 158, 159, 206, 209, 250, 254, 255, 267-8, 285, 297, 304, 311n., 315-6. Court Rolls, of Manydown, 13. Cowper, John, 165. Cows, decrease in number of, 96; increase, 325; let out by the year, 34, 57, 65; yield of, 33, 64. (_See_ Prices of Cattle.) Craik improves drill, 202. Craven, migration from, 44. Crimean War, effect of, 277n., 287. Crondall, 28. Crows' and magpies' nests to be destroyed, 100. Culley, George, 217, 234, 337, 344. Cultivated land, amount of, in 1685, 120; in 1867, 288. Cultivation, Walter of Henley on, 32; of England, in 1688, 155; the old and new ways of, 177, 180, 194, 200-2. Cultivation, clauses, 57, 178, 218, 296, 302, 322. Cumberland, 238, 295, 309, 311, 346. Currants, 331. Custom of the country, 299, 300n., 302 (_see_ Tenant right). Cuxham, manor of, 24. Cylindrical drain pipes, 272. D Dairy, the, and dairying, 33, 59, 168, 170, 173, 199-200, 297, 307, 306, 313, 319, 325, 340-1. (_See_ Butter, Cheese, _and_ Milk.) Damsons, 15, 136. Danegeld, 6. Dartmoor sheep, 344, 346. Davenant, 115, 117, 120, 260, 354. Daventry, common fields at, 115, 117, 120, 260, 354. Davy, Sir H., 232, 276; T.T., 342. Dealers, legislation against, 86, 93, 134; complaints against, 237. Defoe, Daniel, 166, 168, 169, 171, 174, 220, 259. Degge, Simon, 122. Demesne, 7, 15, 30, 45, 56, 58, 65, 74, 97, 99. Denmark, imports from, 241, 262, 323-4; livestock in, 334; wheat crops in, 332n. Depression, agricultural, 163, 183, 184, 223, 228, 242, 248, 262-70, 281, 292, 293-6, 305-14. Derby, Lord, estate of, 320n. Derbyshire, 44, 167, 309, 343. Devon cattle, 168, 217, 225, 233, 274, 288, 336, 339, 340-3. (_See_ Southams.) Devon sheep, 343, 344. Devonshire, 37, 73, 107, 113, 128, 132, 136, 186, 187, 244, 245, 269, 272, 295, 306, 309, 338. Devonshiring, 141. D'Ewes, Sir S., quoted, 117, 133. Dexters, 343. Dibbling wheat, 135. Digging for wheat, 135.
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