44, 345.

Oxfordshire, 24, 40, 78, 99, 145, 151.

P

Pack-horses, use of, 138.

Packing fruit in seventeenth century, 129, 130.

Paring and burning, 141, 153.

Parsnips, 143.

Pasture, breaking up, 218.

Pasture,
common, 2, 4, 16, 19, 73, 99, 113, 195;
often worth little, 256;
permanent, in Holdings Act, 299;
extent of, in 1688, 155;
in 1770, 196;
ploughed up during French War, 243;
sparing, 124.

Pasture land, price of, 41, 59, 115-7, 139.

Patents, 113, 236.

Peaches, 15, 93, 136.

Pears, 15, 93, 130, 131, 136, 143, 329, 333.

Peas, 33, 69, 124, 155, 200, 227, 331-2, 353.

Peasants' revolt, 60.

Peel's drainage loans, 272.

Penalty for breaking up pasture, 178.

Perry, 130.

Pestilences, 38, 42, 68, 79.

Piecework, 28, 163, 206.

Pigeons, number of, 49, 96, 105, 143, 244, 274, 275.

Pigs,
export of, 330;
feeding, 16, 125;
foot-and-mouth disease attacks, 290;
import of, 326;
number of, 333-4;
profit on, in 1763, 200;
size of, in 1592, 104;
value of, 20, 35n., 96, 200-3;
varieties of, 170, 346.
(_See_ Prices.)

Pinchbeck, 103.

Pitt, William, 238, 239.

Plat, Sir Hugh, 127, 152.

Plattes, Gabriel, 76, 127.

Pleuro-pneumonia, _see_ Cattle plagues.

Plot, 145.

Plough, eleventh- and twelfth-century, 17.

Ploughing,
cost of, 33, 65, 135, 141, 177, 179, 246;
months for, 17, 124.

Ploughland, the, 16, 18.

Ploughs and ploughing, 65, 83, 113, 125, 129, 135, 143, 150,
153, 177, 191, 203, 217, 218, 225, 273, 342, 354.

Plums, 15, 93, 130, 131, 136, 329, 332.

Poaching, 48;
by labourers, 55, 210, 248, 282, 291.

Population of England, 79, 89, 111, 120, 140, 156, 160, 163, 211, 240, 287.

Pork, price of, _see_ Prices.

Porter, 'Progress of Nation,' 276, 279, 286, 287.

Portugal, exports to, 349.

Potatoes, 106, 107, 112, 187, 191, 194, 227, 318, 331-3, 353;
disease, 277.

Poultry, 41n., 66, 80, 132, 169, 170 (_see_ Prices);
carrying, to London,171.

Praepositus, 12.

Precarii, or boon days, 9.

Precious metals,
influx of, 89, 111;
scarcity of, 66n.

Prices:
Apples, 15, 65, 188, 189.
Bacon and pork, 96, 102, 238, 239, 263, 313, 334.
Barley, 20, 35, 69, 114, 133, 138, 142, 155, 179, 223, 247,
312, 347, 350-3.
Beans, 35, 155, 180, 347.
Beef, 96, 102, 114, 164, 206n., 239, 240, 241, 242, 247, 262, 263, 265.
Bread, 206n., 207n., 223, 230, 242n., 280, 285, 286, 291.
Butter, 33, 66, 114,