f the Manor

CHAPTER II

The Thirteenth Century.--The Manor at its Zenith, with Seeds of Decay
already visible.--Walter of Henley

CHAPTER III

The Fourteenth Century.--Decline of Agriculture.--The Black Death.--
Statute of Labourers

CHAPTER IV

How the Classes connected with the Land lived in the Middle Ages

CHAPTER V

The Break-up of the Manor.--Spread of Leases.--The Peasants'
Revolt.--Further Attempts to regulate Wages.--A Harvest
Home.--Beginning of the Corn Laws.--Some Surrey Manors

CHAPTER VI

1400-1540. The so-called 'Golden Age of the Labourer' in a Period of
General Distress

CHAPTER VII

Enclosure

CHAPTER VIII

Fitzherbert.--The Regulation of Hours and Wages

CHAPTER IX

1540-1600. Progress at last--Hop-growing.--Progress of Enclosure.--
Harrison's _Description_

CHAPTER X

1540-1600. Live Stock.--Flax.--Saffron.--The Potato.--The Assessment
of Wages

CHAPTER XI

1600-1700. Clover and Turnips.--Great Rise in Prices.--More
Enclosure.--A Farming Calendar

CHAPTER XII

The Great Agricultural Writers of the Seventeenth Century.--Fruit-growing.
--A Seventeenth-century Orchard

CHAPTER XIII

The Evils of Common Fields.--Hops.--Implements.--Manures.--Gregory
King.--Corn Laws

CHAPTER XIV

1700-65. General Characteristics of the Eighteenth Century.--Crops.
--Cattle.--Dairying.--Poultry.--Tull and the New Husbandry.--Bad
Times.--Fruit-growing

CHAPTER XV

1700-65. Townshend.--Sheep-rot.--Cattle Plague.--Fruit-growing

CHAPTER XVI

1765-93. Arthur Young.--Crops and their Cost.--The Labourers'
Wages and Diet.--The Prosperity of Farmers.--The Country
Squire.--Elkington.--Bakewell.--The Roads.--Coke of Holkham

CHAPTER XVII

1793-1815. The Great French War.--The Board of Agriculture.--High
Prices, and Heavy Taxation

CHAPTER XVIII

Enclosure.--The Small Owner

CHAPTER XIX

1816-37. Depression

CHAPTER XX

1837-75. Revival of Agriculture.--The Royal Agricultural
Society.--Corn Law Repeal.--A Temporary Set-back.--The Halcyon Days

CHAPTER XXI

1875-1908. Agricultural Distress again.--Foreign Competition.--
Agricultural Holdings Act.--New Implements.--Agricultural
Commissions.--The Situation in 1908

CHAPTER XXII

Imports and Exports.--Live Stock

CHAPTER XXIII

Modern Farm Live Stock

APPENDICES

I. Average Prices from 1259 to 1700

II. Exports and Imports of Wheat and Flour from and into England,
un