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Armley (enclosure), 51, 59, 60, and Appendix A (1).

Arson, in 1830, 243 ff., 268 f.; penalties for, 273; trials for, 309 f.

Artaxerxes, 70.

Arthur, Sir George (Governor of Van Diemen’s Land), 205, 324.

Arundel, 256.

Arundel, Lord, 261, 293.

Ash, 183.

Ashbury (enclosure), 43 _n._

Ashelworth (enclosure), 46, 50, 59, 98, and Appendix A (2).

Astley, Sir E., 71.

Aston, Tirrold, 263.

Atkins, Elizabeth, 102.

Attorney-General. _See_ Denman.

Aunalls, James, 285.

Austen, Jane, 214.

Avington, 258, 265.

Award, enclosure, 60.

Aylesbury, 132; riots in 1795, 121; Special Commission, 275, 306 f.

Azay le Rideau, 3.

Babeau, M., 1, 215, 223.

Bacon, R. M., 321.

Bagehot, W., 36.

Bagshot Heath, 40.

Bailiffs, 160, 213.

Baily, Mr., 97 _n._

Baker, Mr., M.P., and Settlement, 153.

Bakewell, 36.

Bamford, S., 213, 238.

Bampfylde, Copleston Warre, 65.

Barett, 293.

Baring, Bingham, 292, 304; and Cook 286; and Deacle case, 278, 287.

---- Sir Thomas, 187, 192, 284.

Barings, the, 243, 288, 302, 317.

Barkham, 82.

Barnes, 277.

---- Common, 31.

Barré, Colonel, 219.

Barton Stacey, 284, 285.

Basingstoke, 162 _n._, 289.

Baskerville, Mr., J.P., 297.

Bath, 121, 127, 130 _n._, 190 _n._

Bathurst, Lord, 56.

Batten, Matthew, 303.

Battersea, 30.

Battle, 248, 250, 253, 255, 256.

Beaconsfield, 135.

Beckett (the gaoler), 277.

Beckley, 88 f., 91.

Bedford, 152.

---- Gaol, account of prisoners in, 193.

Belgrave, Lord, 143.

Benett, John, M. P., and 1830 rising, 261, 291, 292, 315; at Cobbett’s trial, 317.

Bennett, 263.

---- Cornelius, 303 f.

Benson or Bensington, 268.

Bentham, 203, 312; on enclosure, 40; on Pitt’s Bill, 150.

Bentley, 218.

Berkeley, Bishop, 175.

Berkshire, 30; 1830 rising in, 258 ff.; prisoners, 308 _n._

---- Bread Act. _See_ Speenhamland.

Bernard, Scrope, 132.

---- Sir Thomas, on Lord Winchilsea’s allotments, 128, 155, 158 f.; on minimum wage, 143; on removals, 154 _n._

Betts, John, 102.

Bicester, 99 _n._

Billingsley, J., 37, 61 _n._, 98 _n._

Birdingbury, 100.

Birmingham, 115.

Bishop, Daniel, on poaching, 192, 196; on 1830 rising, 248.

Bishop, 310 f.

Bishops, the, comparison of French and English, 217; reforming, 218, 219.

Bishopstone (Wilts), (enclosure), 51.

Bishops Walthams, 159.

Bishton, Mr., 38.

Blackstone, 187, 203, 219; on common rights, 29, 31; on gleaning, 108.

Blake, Mr., of Idmiston, 295.

---- William, 326.

Blean, 310.

Blizzard, Thomas, 307.

Blomfield, Bishop, 219.

Blow, Charles, 246.

Board of Agriculture, and enclosures, 74 ff., 84; questions to correspondents, 135, 176.

Bocking, 118.

Bolingbroke, Lord (author of _Patriot King_), 207.

---- ---- and Sedgmoor, 65.

Bolland, Mr. Justice, 302.

Bolnhurst (enclosure), 32.

Bologna, 326.

Booby, Lady, 18.

Borderers. _See_ Squatters.

Boroughs, disputes about franchise, 8; Scot and lot, 8; potwalloper, 9; burgage, 9; corporation, 10; freemen, 11.

Bosanquet, Mr. Justice, 95, 274.

Boston, 10.

Boswell, Will, 102.

Botany Bay, 239.

Bourton, Charles, 294.

Boys, John (agriculturist), 160.

---- ---- (farmer, in 1830 rising), 282 f.

Bradley, 116 _n._

Bragge, Mr., M.P., 44 _n._

Bramshott, 260.

Brandon, 177.

Braunston (enclosure), 43 _n._

Bread, wheaten and mixed, 124, 126. _See also_ Diet.

Brede, parish rising at, 248 ff.

Brighton, 223, 247, 284.

Brimpton, 304.

Bristol, 12, 121, 152, 243.

Bristowe, Squire, 293.

Brittany, 224.

Broad Somerford, 85.

Brocklehurst, Mr., 38.

Brooks’s, 68 _n._, 69, 222, 332.

Brotherton, Colonel, 259.

Brougham, Henry, 302, 322; on agriculture, 171; on J.P.’s, 191; on increase of commitments, 200; on criminal courts, 202; on 1830 rising, 270; Cobbett on, 313; at Cobbett’s trial, 317 f.

Broughton, 267.

Brown, Rev. Mr., 43 _n._

---- Thomas, 310.

Bryan, Elizabeth, 102.

Bryant, Joseph, 249.

Buckingham, 183; and 1830 rising, 268; prisoners, 308 _n._

---- Duke of, 18; and rising of 1830, 243, 258, 265, 306.

Buckland Newton, 301.

Budgets, 111, 120, Appendix B.

Bulcamp, House of Industry, 147 _n._

Bull-baiting, 57.

Bullen, Robert, 301.

Bullington, 284.

Bully. _See_ Bolingbroke.

Bunce, Henry, 277.

Buns, parish, 268.

Burbage, George, 295.

Burdett, Sir F., 313.

Burdon, Mr., M.P., 142.

Burgage boroughs, 9.

Burgundy, Duke of, 4.

Burke, 7, 14, 103, 203, 329, 330; on the aristocracy, 24; on Parliamentary representation, 75; on regulating wages, 135; philosophy of social life, 208, 210; on French Assembly, 215.

Burkhead, Charles, 102.

Burley on the Hill, 155.

Burn, Dr., 115, 117.

Burnet, 40.

Burnham, 214.

Burwash, 250.

Bury St. Edmunds, 177, 192.

Buxton, Mr., M.P., 142, 143, 153, 210.

Byron, 313.

Cabinet System established, 6.

Cade, Jack, 13.

Cæsar, 170, 330.

Cambridge, 269.

_Cambridge Modern History_, 87 _n._

Cambridgeshire, 177, 184, 269.

Camden, 202.

Camden, Lord, 246, 255, 309.

Canning, 202, 210, 241, 331, 332.

Canterbury, 244, 255, 256.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 190 _n._, 204; prayer in 1830, 270.

Capes, W. W., 159 _n._

Capital offences, and Private Bill Committees, 64.

Carbery, Lord, 43 _n._

Carlile, Richard, prosecution in 1831, 315.

Carlisle, 11, 121, 269.

Carlisle, Lord, and Sedgmoor, 66 ff.

Carlyle, 216.

Carmarthen, 152.

Carnarvon, Lord, 240.

Carr, Elizabeth, 102.

Carrington, Lord, 84, 155, 156, 250.

Carter, James, 86.

---- John, 86, 102.

Cartmel (enclosure), 50.

Carus Wilson, Mr., 38, 42 _n._

Case, 275.

Castlereagh, 238, 299, 314, 332.

Cavan, Lord and Lady, 279 f.

Certificates (under Settlement Laws), 113, 115 ff., 158.

Chancellor, Lord. _See_ Brougham.

Charles I., and enclosures, 34.

---- V., 319.

---- VIII., 235.

---- X., 311.

Charlton (Otmoor), 89, 93.

---- (Wilts), 287.

Chateauvieux, M., 233 f.

Chatham, Lord, 329, 330.

Cheese, dearness of, 129 _n._

Chenonceaux, 3.

Cherry, Mr., J.P., 265.

Cheshunt (enclosure), 58 _n._, 59, 86, 98 _n._, and Appendix A (3).

Chester, 152.

Chester, Charles, 43 _n._

Children, employment of, 141 f.; punishment of, 200 f.

Chinon, 3.

Chippendale, 327.

Christian, Mr., 178.

Chudleigh, 121.

Church, the (_see also_ Clergy), 326; and enclosure, 56, 76 f., 168; and tithes, 167 f.; and the poor, 216 ff.

Churchill, Lord, 94 f.

Cicero, 238, 331.

Cinque Ports, 12.

Claims, presentation of, under enclosure Acts, 63.

Clare, Lord, 321.

---- John, 331, 332 _n._

Clarke, Marcus, 199, 205.

---- Tom, 216.

Clergy, non-residence of the, 214, 220; and the poor, 216 ff.; association with governing class, 219; salaries of curates, 221; and tithes, 222.

Clerk, George, 281.

Clive, 206.

Clough, John and Thomas, 200.

Cobbett, William, 40, 127, 184 _n._, 189 _n._, 191, 228, 278 _n._, 284, 285, 291, 309; on enclosures, 35; on unpaid magistrates, 62; on tea, 128; on allotments, 154, 159, 173; on Whitbread’s 1807 scheme, 180 f.; description of labourers, 185; on relations of rich to poor, 211; on change in farming, 212 f.; on parsons, 220; George IV. on, 223; and village sports, 223; description of, 234 f.; and 1830 rising, 244, 248, 259, 264, 287; on Whig ministers, 313; trial in 1831, 315 ff.

Cobbold, Rev. Mr., 260, 282.

Cockerton, Rev. Mr., 285.

Codrington, O. C., 297.

Coke, Lord, 21.

---- of Norfolk, 36; and spring guns, 196; and Game Laws, 196 _n._, 198.

Colchester, 10, 15.

Coleman, Mr., 249 f.

Collingwood, Mr., J.P., 253, 256.

Collins, A., 218.

---- (in Deacle case), 277.

Combination Laws, 234, 238, 272.

Commissioners, Enclosure, 43; power of, 58 f.; appointment of, 60 ff., 73.

Commissioners. _See_ Poor Law Commission.

Commoners, character of, 37 ff.; at Otmoor, 88 f.; theory of rights of, 92.

Common fields, extent of, in 1688, 26; system of cultivation, 28; managed by manor courts, 30; varieties in system, 30, 31 _n._; Sir R. Sutton’s Act, 31; ownership of, 32; subdivision of property in, 33; position of labourers under system, 33 f., 159; disadvantages of, 36 f.; relation to old enclosures, 42.

Common land, three uses of term, 28.

Commons, relation to village economy, 27, 103; alleged deleterious effects of, on commoners, 37 f.; commoners’ own views on subject, 39; aesthetic objections to, 40.

Common rights, 29, 31, 32; legal decision about inhabitants, 32; claims for, on enclosure, 63; at Otmoor, 92.

Consents, proportion required for enclosure, 49 ff.; how assessed, 50 ff.; how obtained, 51 f.; _see also_ King’s Sedgmoor, 66 ff.

Cook, Henry, 286 f., 290, 317, 319.

Cooper, 259, 285, 290.

---- and others, 95.

Coote, Eyre, 280, 285.

Copenhagen, 178 _n._

Copyholders, position of, 22, 23, 28 f., 51.

Corn Laws, 321.

Cornwall, 28 _n._

Corporation boroughs, 10.

Corsley (Wilts), 220.

Cottagers, 28 ff.; position before enclosure, 31; and enclosure, 52 f.; presentment of claims by, 63; results of enclosure on, 97, 100 ff.; and allotments, 155 ff.

Cotswolds, 40.

Coulson, Mr., 97 _n._

Councils, French, under Regency, 2.

Cove, Rev. Mr., J. P., 304.

Coventry, 78, 119.

Coventry, Lord, 56.

Cows, loss of, on enclosure, 100 f., 127; Raunds commoners on benefit of, 39; and allotments, 155 ff.; and settlement, 178 f.

Cox, William, 102.

Coxe, Mr., M.P., 65.

Coxhead, Mr., M.P., 142.

Crabbe, 223; on workhouse, 147; on roundsmen, 165; on poachers, 194; on poor, 212.

Cranbrook, 255 f.

Craven, Lord, 43 _n._

Creevey, 139, 209.

Cricklade, 185.

Croke, Sir Alex., 89 f., 92, 94, 96.

Croker, 10.

Cromwell, Oliver, 22; and enclosures, 35.

Crook, John, 306.

Croxton, 43 _n._

Croydon (enclosure), 48, 59, 63, 199 _n._, and Appendix A (4).

Curtler, W. H. R., 172, 175 _n._

Curwen, Mr., M.P., 130, 158 _n._, 195, 198, 213.

Dalbiac, General, 256.

Darling, Alfred, 305.

Davenant, 26 _n._

Davies, Rev. David, his book, 82, 85; on fuel, 107, 131 f.; on rise in prices, 110; his budgets, 111, 120, 122, and Appendix B; on mixed bread, 126; on milk, 127; on tea, 128 f.; on minimum wage, 136 f.; on land for labourers, 82, 154.

---- Miss M. F., 220 _n._

Dawson, Hannah, 121.

Deacle, Mr., and the Deacle case, 277 f., 287 f.

Deal, 248.

Debates in Parliament, on Private Enclosure Bills, 55 f.; on General Enclosure Bills, 77; on Whitbread’s Bill, 140 ff.; on Pitt’s Poor Law Bill, 149; on Settlement, 153; on rising of 1830, 314 f., 320.

Deddington, 119, 122.

Deerhurst, Lord, 197.

Defoe, Daniel, 6.

De Grey, Mr., 71 f.

Demainbray, Rev. S., 85.

Denman, Lord, on J.P.’s, 19; and 1830 rising, 278, 282, 288, 290, 291, 302; and Cook, 287, 319; and Lush, 292; and amnesty debate, 315; and Cobbett’s trial, 317 ff.

De Quincey, 218, 242, 332.

Derby, 117 _n._

Derby, Brooker, 102.

_Deserted Village, The_, 331.

D’Este, Isabella, 326.

De Tocqueville, 1, 5, 14, 24, 222.

Devon, 28 _n._, 269.

Dicketts, Henry, 295.

Diderot, 4.

Diet, of labourer, 111, 123 ff.; attempt to introduce cheap cereals, 124; soup, 125; tea, 128 f.

Dillon, Archbishop, 217.

Disraeli, 103.

Domestic industries, 107.

_Doomsday Book_, 91.

Dorchester, Special Commission at, 275, 300 f.

Dorset, 185; 1830 rising, 268; prisoners, 308 _n._

Dover, 245.

Dowden, W., 285 f.

Downton, 9.

Drake, Sir F., 68.

Drummond, Mr., 230.

Dryden, 169, 264.

Dubois, 2.

Dudley, Lord, 327 _n._

Dundas, Charles, 141; and Speenhamland, 161 f.; on Special Commission, 302.

---- Henry, 141, 299, 329.

Dunkin, on Otmoor, 88 ff.; on Merton, 99.

Dunmow, 135 f.

Dunn, Ann, 102.

Dunwich, 11 f.

Durham, 11.

Durham, Lord, 209, 313, 317, 318.

Dyott, Sir W., 201.

Ealing, 124.

East Grimstead, 260.

---- Grinstead, 11.

---- Retford, 12.

---- Stretton, 284.

Easton, Rev. Mr., and family, 263, 277.

Eaves, 256.

Ebrington, Lord, 269.

Eden, Sir F. M., 31; and enclosure, 49, 78, 82, 117; his book, 82, 210; and gleaning, 107; budgets, 111 and Appendix B; on Settlement Laws, 113 f., 116, 118 _n._ ff.; and food riots, 122; on diet, 123-132 _passim_; on workhouses, 147; on roundsmen, 148 _n._ and 164; on Speenhamland meeting, 162; his ideal poor woman, 208 f.; on rich and poor, 210.

_Edinburgh Review_, 185, 197.

Egleton, 155.

Egremont, Lord, 155.

Eldon, Lord, 20, 204, 309.

_Eleanor_, the, 308 _n._

Eliot, 10.

_Eliza_, the, 324.

Elizabeth, Queen, 8, 21.

Ellenborough, Lord, 189, 196, 202, 204, 273.

Ellison, Mr., M.P., 143, 153.

Ely, 178.

Enclosures, and productivity, 26, 40; by voluntary agreement, 28 _n._; extent of, before eighteenth century, 34; motives for, 35; extent of Parliamentary enclosure, 41 f.; Parliamentary procedure, 43 ff.; consents required, 49 ff.; Lord Thurlow on Parliamentary procedure, 53 f.; local procedure, 58 ff.; General Enclosure Bills, 74 ff.; Act of 1801, 77, 84; hostility of poor to, 78 f.; criticism of methods, 81 ff.; provision for poor, 85 f.; results on village, Chap. v.; effects on relationship of classes, 211.

Encroachments, by squatters, 31; treatment of, under enclosure, 103.

Engrossing of farms, 32, 81, 211.

Entail. _See_ Family Settlements.

Epsom, 147.

Erskine, 139.

Essex, 184, 269; prisoners, 308 _n._

Estcourt, Thomas, 156.

---- T. G. B., 198, 200 _n._, 291.

_Evelina_, 211.

Eversley, Lord, 32 _n._

Ewbanks, 104.

Expenses of enclosure, 97 f. _See also_ Fees.

Eycon, Elizabeth, 102.

Falkland, 312.

Fane, Mr., M.P., 90.

Farmers implicated in 1830 rising, 248 f., 265, 282.

---- large, gained by enclosure, 97; and milk, 127; and allotments, 159; divided from labourers, 212; Cobbett on, 212 f.

---- small, ruined by enclosure, 97 ff.; and milk, 127 f.; and other classes, 211; Cobbett on, 212 f.

Farmer, William, 281.

Farm servants, 28, 31.

Farnham, 185, 235, 264.

Fawley, 242 _n._, 278 ff.

Fees for Enclosure Bills, 76.

Felony, counsel in cases of, 201.

Fencing, cost of, 97, 98 _n._, 101; penalties for breaking, 199 _n._

Fencott, 89.

Fénelon, 3.

Fielding, 187, 327; on village life, 18 f., 33; on lawyers, 63, 216; his scheme for the poor, 151; on solidarity of poor, 237.

Finch, Mr., 252.

Firth, Mr., 35.

Fitzwilliam, Lord, 101, 330.

Fitzwilliams, 13.

Flackwell Heath, 307.

Flanders, 2.

Ford, John, 261.

Fordingbridge, 121, 259, 280, 285.

Forster, Mr., of Norwich, 83.

Fox, C. J., 53 _n._, 139, 140, 311, 314, 328, 329; on M.P.’s and patrons, 13 f.; and Sedgmoor, 68 f.; and Horne Tooke, 72 f.; on mixed bread, 126; on minimum wage, 134, 141 f.; on charity, 210; despair of Parliamentary government, 330.

Fox-hunting, change in, 214.

France, position of aristocracy in, 1 ff.; monarchy in, 2 ff.; division of common land in, 87; peasants compared with English labourers, 105, 111, 168, 240.

Franchise, Parliamentary, 7 ff.; in boroughs, 8 ff.; county, 13.

Francis I., 22.

---- Philip, 78.

Freeholders, 28 f.

Freemen boroughs, 11 f.

French, Colonel, M.P., 196.

French Convention, 168.

---- war, agriculture during, 171.

Friends of the People, 13 f.

Frome, 127.

Fryer, Mr., 306.

Fuel rights, 31, 100, 106; allotments, 76; cost of, to labourer, 107; scarcity after enclosure, 130 ff.; taken from hedges, 131.

Fussell, J., 283.

Gage, Lord, 251.

Gaiter, John, 303.

Galloway, Lord, 57.

Galsworthy, J., 35.

Game Laws, 187 ff., 321; convictions under, 191 f.; supply of game to London, 196 f.

Gardens for labourers, 157, 175.

Gateward’s case, 32.

Gatton, 8.

Geese on Otmoor, 88.

George III., 6, 80, 312.

---- IV., 168, 312; on Cobbett, 223.

German legion, 173.

Gibbon, 24, 217, 222, 325, 326.

Gibbons, Sir W., 86, 102.

Gibbs, Sir Vicary, 317.

Gilbert, 108.

Gilbert’s Act, 146, 148, 164, 179 _n._

Gillray, 329.

Gilmore, 260, 285.

Glasse, Rev. Dr., 132 _n._

Gleaning, 107 ff., 117; controversy on, 108 f.

Gloucester, 144; trials at, 301.

Gloucestershire, 1830 rising, 268; prisoners, 308 _n._

Godalming, 152.

Goderich, Lord, 317 f., 324.

Godmanchester, 17.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 24, 201, 203, 212, 223, 331.

Gooch, Mr., 212.

Goodenough, Dr., 218.

Goodfellow, Thomas, 303 f.

Goodman, Thomas, 309, 318.

Gordon riots, 288.

Gosport, 289; jurors, 283.

Goudhurst, 256.

Gould, Sir Henry, 109.

Graham, Sir James, 187, 317.

Gray, Thomas, 104, 214.

Great Tew, 17, 30.

Greenaway, 268.

Greenford, 132 _n._

Greetham, 155.

Gregory, 284.

Grenville, Lord, 77.

Grey, Lord, 14 _n._, 19, 76, 140, 233, 314, 328, 329, 330; Prime Minister, 311 ff., 320; Cobbett on, 313; at Cobbett’s trial, 317 f.; on Corn Laws, 321; and Suffield, 322 ff.

Guercino, 326.

Guernsey, Lord, 218.

Guildford, 121.

Guildford, Lord, 220. _See also_ North, Francis.

Gulliver, Mary, 102.

Gurney, J., in 1830 trials, 302 ff.

Hale, 108.

Halifax, 116, 216 _n._

Hambledon, 155.

Hampden, 10.

Hampshire, 128, 184; 1830 rising in, 258 ff.; prisoners, 308 _n._

---- and Wiltshire labourers compared, 298.

Harbord Harbord, Sir, 80, 203 f., 321.

Harding, John, 262.

Hardres, 244.

Hardy, J., 227.

Harewoods, the, 13.

Hasbach, Professor, 7, 26 _n._, 33.

Haslemere, 9.

Hastings, Warren, 206.

Hastings, 12.

Hatch, 293.

Haute Huntre (enclosure), 44, 55, 59, 61 _n._, 78, 101, 199 _n._, and Appendix A (5).

Hawker, W., 65.

Hay, Mr., M.P., 115.

Hazlitt, William, 235.

Heacham, 137, 139.

Headley Workhouse, 243 f., 260, 280, 282, 285.

Healey, Dr., 238.

Heathfield, 250, 255.

Heckingham, 147 _n._

Hele, Rev. Mr., 250.

Helpstone, 332 _n._

Henley, 305.

Henley, Thomas, 249 f.

Henry IV. (of France), 7, 19.

Henstead, 227.

Hereford, 269.

Hetherington, 102.

Hickson, Mr., 226.

Higgs, Ann, 102.

Highlands, the, 40.

Hill, Edmund, 102.

---- G. S., 249 _n._

---- Isaac, 276.

Hinchcliffe, J. _See_ Bishop of Peterborough.

Hindhead, 40.

Hindon, 184, 276.

Hirst. _See_ Redlich.

Histon and Impington (enclosure), 51.

Hobhouse, H., 254.

---- John Cam, 312 f.

---- Lord, 22 _n._

Hobson, J. A., 166.

Hodges, Mr., M.P., 253 f.

Hodgson, Naomi, 102.

Holdaway, Robert, 260, 285.

Holdsworth, W., 23 _n._

Holkham, 328.

Holland, Lady, 250.

---- Lord, 140, 314, 320, 321, 327; on spring guns, 195; on penal code, 204, 330.

Holy Island (enclosure), 48 f.

Homage. _See_ Juries.

Homer, 238.

---- Rev. H., 100.

Hone, 315.

Horace, 238.

Horsham, 257 f.

Horsley, Bishop, 218.

Horton, 89.

Hothfield, 118.

Howlett, Rev. J., 115, 147 _n._, 151; on minimum wage, 135 f.

Hubbard, Ann, 102.

Hudson, W. H., 199, 262 _n._, 298 _n._, 308.

Hume, J., 315.

Hungerford riots, 264, 303, 305.

Hunt, Henry, 190, 262, 266, 276, 282; and Lush, 291; and amnesty debate, 314 f.

---- Rev. Dr., 189 _n._

Huntingdon, 177; prisoners, 308 _n._

Hurst, Ann. _See_ Strudwick.

---- Mr., 257 f.

Hurstbourne, 284.

Hythe, 247.

Idmiston, 295.

Ilchester, Lord, 67.

Ilmington, 53.

Ipswich, 15, 121.

_Ipswich Journal_, 121 _n._, 164 _n._

Isherwood, H., 102.

Isle of Wight, 169.

Islip, 94.

James I., 8.

---- II., 5.

Jenks, E., 20.

Jennings, John, 261.

Jerome, St., 219.

Johnson, A. H., 41, 42.

---- Mary Ann, 246.

---- (overseer), 254.

---- Samuel, 24, 40, 80, 129, 203, 328, 331.

Joliffe, Mr., M.P., 149.

---- Rev. J., 285.

_Jones, Tom_, 194.

Jordan, Edmund, 102.

Judd, Mr., 293.

Judges, discretion in sentences, 202 f.; salaries advanced, 241; addresses at Special Commissions, 274, 275, 300, 303.

Juries, presentments by, 17; of Manor Courts, 30.

Justices of the Peace, growth of power, 16 ff.; autocratic character, 18 ff.; unpaid, 20; and regulation of wages, 140, 144; and workhouses, 148; Brougham on, 191.

Juvenal, 204.

Keene, Mr., 68.

Kelvedon, 230.

Kempster, Richard, 305.

Kemys Tynte, Sir C., 65, 68.

Kendal, 127.

Kent, 144, 183; 1830 rising in, 244 ff.; prisoners, 308 _n._

Kent, Nathaniel, 80, 81, 110, 111, 127, 135, 154, 155, 160.

---- William, 102.

Kenton, 118.

Kew, 235.

Kibworth-Beauchamp, 117, 164.

King, Gregory, 26 _n._, 28.

---- Captain, 256.

---- Lord, 320.

---- Thomas, 102.

Kingsley, 260.

King’s Lynn, 11.

---- Sedgmoor (enclosure), 52, 64 ff., 98 _n._, Appendix A (14).

Kington, 56.

Kintbury mob, 264; anecdotes of, 265.

Kirton, 100 _n._

Knaresborough (enclosure), 55, 59 f., 64, 86, 98 _n._, Appendix A (6).

Knatchbull, Sir Edward, 245 f.

Kosciusko, 173.

‘Labour Rate’ system, 230.

Laleham (enclosure), 50, 51 _n._, 59, 86, Appendix A (7).

Lamb, George, 315.

Lambton. _See_ Durham, Lord.

Lampsacus, 70.

Lancashire, 133.

Lane, 277.

Lansdowne, Lord, 273, 291, 314, 322.

Lauderdale, Lord, 202.

Launceston, 12.

Lawyers, French and English, compared, 215 f.

Laxton, 43 _n._

Lechmere, Mr., M.P., 77, 141, 233.

Lecky, W. E. H., 111 _n._, 129 _n._

Leeds, 59, 60, 116.

Leeds, Duke of, 47 f.

Legg, the brothers, 294.

---- George, 301.

Leicestershire, 186.

Leigh, Lord, 100.

Leo X., 22.

Lespinasse, Mlle. de, 4.

Levy, Professor, 26 _n._, 41, 100 _n._, 111.

Lewes Assizes, 274; Gaol, 246.

Light, 294.

Lilley, the brothers, 193.

Limoges, 4.

Lincoln, 152.

Lincoln, Bishop of, 57.

---- Lord, 53.

Lincolnshire, 155, 269.

Litchfield, 119 _n._

Little Marlow, 307.

Littleport, 178.

Liverpool, 11.

Liverpool, Lord, 256.

Llandaff, Bishop of. _See_ Watson.

Loches, 3.

Locke, 150.

Loes and Wilford, 118, 120.

Lofft, Capel, 108.

London, City of, 12.

Londonderry, Lord, 197.

Long, Walter, J.P., 278.

Long Crendon, 306.

---- Newnton, 156.

Longparish, 284.

Lonsdale, Lord, 9.

Looker case, the, 295, 296, 315.

Lord of the Manor, position under common-field system, 28 f., 32 f.; position on enclosure, 58, 61, 73, 97.

Louis XIII., 5, 19.

---- XIV., 2, 3, 19, 34.

---- XV., 2, 4, 219.

---- XVI., 3, 4, 5, 218, 311.

Louth (enclosure), 51, 58 _n._, 59, 86, 98 _n._, 102, Appendix A (8).

Lowell, Professor, 17.

Lower Winchendon, 132.

Lucan, 206.

Lucretius, 125.

Ludlow, 12.

Lush, James, 277, 291, 292, 298.

Lyminge, 245.

Lynn, 139.

Macaulay, 23; on _Deserted Village_, 331.

Macclesfield, Lord, 96.

Machinery, judges on benefits of, 275; destruction of, in 1830, 259 ff., 268, 303, 306; penalties for destruction, 273. _See also_ Threshing Machines.

Mackarness, John, 89.

Mackrell, Thomas, 306.

Macquarie Harbour, 206.

Magnesia, 70.

Maidenhead, 268.

Maids Morton, 164.

Maidstone, 246 f., 255 f.; Assizes, 274.

Maine, 23.

Mair, Colonel, 259.

Maldon, 12.

Malicious Trespass Act, 199 f.

Malthus, 165, 204, 207, 322, 323; on Whitbread’s scheme, 180 ff.

Manchester, 115.

Manor, the, connection with common field system, 27.

---- Courts, 16 f.; and common field system, 30.

---- Lord of the. _See_ Lord.

March Phillipps, L., 327 _n._

Marengo, 188.

Margate, 183.

Mariner, 187.

Market Lavington, 265.

Marlborough, 265, 297.

Marlborough, Duke of, 43 _n._, 89.

Marshall, William, 36, 80, 97 _n._, 110 _n._, 158 _n._; on methods of enclosure, 81.

Martin, Rev. Mr., 43 _n._

Mason, Joseph and Robert, 284 f.

Maulden (enclosure), 78, 100, 101 _n._

Maurice of Saxony, 319.

Mayfield, 250 f.

Mazarin, 6.

M‘Culloch, 185, 240.

Melbourne, Lord, 96, 302, 310 _n._; and transportation, 205; and 1830 rising, 259, 264, 309, 312, 314; circular of Nov. 24, 267; of Dec. 8, 266 _n._, 270; and Special Commissions, 307; at Cobbett’s trial, 317 f.; and spring guns, 319; on Corn Laws, 321; and Suffield’s proposals, 322 f.

Meredith, Sir William, 64.

Merton, 99, 183.

Metcalf, Ann, 102.

Methodist movement, 220, 326.

Micheldever, 276, 287.

Middleton, Mr., 38, 86.

Middlesex, 21.

Midlands, 34, 101.

Milan, 131.

Millet, 332.

Military tenures, abolition of, 22.

Milk, and enclosure, 39, 110, 127 ff.; attempts to provide, 129 f.

Minimum wage, 133 ff.; Whitbread’s proposals, 86, 139 ff.; probable effects of, 233 f.

Mirabeau, Marquis de, 4.

Mollington, 119.

Monck, J. B., 305.

Monoux, Sir P., 101.

Montesquieu, 4.

Montgomery, Mrs., 294.

Moorcott, 89.

Moore, Adam, 139.

---- F., 100 _n._

---- Robert (in _Shirley_), 35.

Moreton Corbet (enclosure), 47, 60.

Morey, Farmer C., 301.

Morgan, 275.

Mould of Hatch, 293.

Mount, W., 303.

Muir, Thomas, 299.

Municipal government, 15.

Myus, 70.

Napoleon, 140, 173, 188, 241, 328, 329.

Nash, Thomas, 102.

Neale, Jane, 281.

Newbolt, Rev. Dr., 265 f.

Newbury, 161, 267, 305.

New England, 82.

---- Forest, 57.

Newington, 218.

Newport, 201 _n._

---- Pagnell, 157.

New Sarum, 109 _n._

---- South Wales, 261 _n._, 263 _n._, 277 _n._, 308 _n._

Newton, Mr., 268.

Newton Toney, 293.

Nicholls, Sir George, 146 _n._

Ninfield, 250.

Noakes, David and Thomas, 249 f.

Noke, 89.

Norfolk, 122, 177, 269; prisoners, 308 _n._

North, Francis, 22.

---- Lord, 68, 71, 73.

---- Roger, 23.

Northampton, 8.

Northamptonshire, 184, 269.

Northesk, Lord, 282.

Norton, Sir Fletcher, 72.

Norwich, 177.

_Norwich Mercury_, 321.

Nottingham, 11, 116, 118; castle, 243.

Nottinghamshire, 156.

Nutbean, E. C., 281.

Nylands, 43 _n._

Oakley, William, 264, 303, 305.

O’Connell, 239.

Oddington, 89.

Officials, salaries raised, 241. _See also_ Parliamentary _and_ Village.

Old Age Pensions, 169.

Oldfield, 11.

Old Sarum, 9.

Orleans, Duke of, 2.

Ormonde, Duke of, 23.

Orpington, 244.

Orridge, Mr., 192.

Oswestry, 152.

Otmoor (enclosure), 45 _n._, 60, 88 ff.

Oundle, 269.

Overseers, and relief, 145 f.; salaried, 182; hostility to, in 1830 rising, 247, 249, 250, 252, 254, 278.

Overton, 266.

Owslebury, 282.

Oxford, 23, 95, 132, 147 _n._, 163, 218.

_Oxford Journal_, Jackson’s, 88 _n._, 92 _n._, 93 _n._, 96 _n._

_Oxford University and City Herald_, 89 _n._, 93 _n._, 95 _n._, 269 _n._

Oxfordshire, 128, 131, 268; prisoners, 308 _n._

Page, Mr., 264.

Paine, Thomas, 169, 217, 315.

Pakeman, the brothers, 309 f.

Palmer, G., 254.

---- T. F., 299.

Palmerston, Lord, 317, 318.

Parham, Farmer, 294.

Parish carts, 182, 242, 278 f.

Park, Mr. Justice, on Special Commissions, 275, 302, 304 ff.

Parke, Mr. Justice, and Otmoor, 94; on Special Commissions, 275, 278, 283, 300.

Parliament, qualifications for members, 14.

Parliamentary Committees, on Private Enclosure Bills, 45 ff.; how constituted, 46.

---- government, established, 5.

---- officials and enclosure, 76, 103.

---- Reform, 8; Cobbett and, 236; Grey’s Government and, 311 f.

---- representation, analysis of, 12, 13, 14. _See also_ Franchise.

Parr, Dr. 203.

Patience, Ambrose, 292, 294.

Patrons, control of boroughs by, 10 f., 15; relations to M.P.’s, 13.

Patteson, Sir John, 95, 302.

Pearse, Mr., M.P., 265.

Peel, Sir Robert, 191 _n._, 195, 202, 288; and 1830 rising, 246, 247, 256, 258, 311; and prosecution of Cobbett, 316.

Penal Code, 203.

---- Settlements, 205, 206.

Peninsular War, 139, 327.

Pennells, Richard, 310.

Perceval, Spencer, 143, 317.

Perry, E., 109 _n._

---- John, 294.

Peterborough, 31 _n._, 269.

Peterborough, Bishop of, 56.

Peterloo, 330.

Petersfield, 10.

Petitions, for enclosure, 43 f.; against enclosure, 47; how treated, 48; about New Forest, 57; about Tollington, 71 f.

Pinniger, Mr., 277.

Pitt, William, the younger, 14, 15, 60, 103, 139, 174, 212, 241, 299; on mixed bread, 124; on minimum wage, 134 f., 141 f.; his Poor Law Bill, 86, 145, 149 ff., 210; and settlement, 152 f.; and Sinking Fund, 173; and French War, 328 f.

Plymouth, 15.

Plympton, 12.

Poachers, in Bedford Gaol, 193; loss to village, 238. _See also_ Game Laws.

Polhill, Mr., 267.

Political economy, in fashion, 207; judges on, 275.

---- Unions, 290, 316.

Pollen, R., J.P., 275 _n._, 278, 283 _n._

Pompey, 2.

Poor Law, system of relief, 145 ff.; of employment, 148; Pitt’s Bill of 1796, 149 ff.; Whitbread’s Bill of 1807, 143, 179 ff.; litigation, 178. _See also_ Settlement _and_ Speenhamland system.

---- ---- Commission of 1834, 125, 160, 167 _n._, 170, 184, 225 ff.

Pope, 326.

Popham, 21.

Population and Speenhamland system, 170, 174 f., 228.

Porritt, E., 8 ff., 11, 13.

Port Arthur, 206.

Porter, Thomas, 295.

---- William, 102.

Porteus, Bishop, charge to clergy, 220 f.

Portland, Duke of, 108.

Portsmouth, 289.

Potato ground, 160.

Potter, Richard, 200.

---- Macqueen, 192, 308 _n._

Pottern, 85.

Potwalloper boroughs, 9.

Powis, Mr., M.P., 76.

Pretymans, the, 220.

Price, William, and others, 95.

---- Rev. Mr., 245.

Prices, growth of, 109.

Priestley, Dr., 218.

Privileges, Committee of, 10.

_Proteus_, the, 308 _n._

Prothero, R. E., 42.

Public schools, 23.

Pulteney, Sir William, 153.

Punishment, discretion of judges, 202; penal code, 203; fears of its mildness, 204. _See also_ Transportation.

Purley, 71.

Pym, Mr., 101.

---- Mr., J.P., 192.

Pyt House affray, 261 f., 292 f.

Quainton (enclosure), 51, Appendix A (13).

Quarrier, Dr., 283.

Quarter Sessions, change in procedure, 17 f.

Quesnai, 4.

Quidhampton, 261.

Radicals, the, 169, 236, 312.

Radnor, Lord, 9, 291, 313.

Rastall, Rev. Mr., 43 _n._

Raunds (enclosure), 39, 51.

Ray, river, 93 f.

Reading, 231, 267; Special Commission at, 302 ff.

_Reading Mercury_, 121 _n._ f., 161 _n._ ff.

Redlich and Hirst, 7, 20.

Redlinch, 67.

Reed, Mr., 249.

Reform Bill, riots, 243; agitation for, 324. _See also_ Parliamentary Reform.

---- Government, and 1830 rising, 311 ff.; prosecution of Carlile and Cobbett, 315 ff.; incapacity for social legislation, 324.

Reni, Guido, 326.

Revolution of 1688, 5, 26.

Reynolds, Sir J., 24, 326, 332.

Ricardo, 207.

Richardson, Samuel, 18, 19, 33, 45.

Richelieu, 1 ff., 5 f.

Richmond, 9, 214.

Richmond, Duke of, 24, 191, 309.

Rick-burning. _See_ Arson.

Ride, J. and F., and R., 102.

Ringmer, 251.

Riots, enclosure, 78 (_see also_ Otmoor); food riots of 1795, 120 ff.; of 1816, 175, 177 ff.; law about riot, 272 f.; in 1830, Chaps. xi. and xii. _passim_.

Rising in 1830, 240 ff.; origin in Kent, 244; spread to Sussex, 247; to Berks, Hants, and Wilts, 258; alarm of authorities, 266 ff.; spread West and North, 268; wholesale arrests, 267, 270; trials, 272 ff.

Robertsbridge, 249, 253 f.

Robespierre, 217.

Robinson, Mr., M.P., 68.

---- William, 102.

Rochefoucault, Duc de la, 217.

Rockingham, Lord, 13.

Rockley, 297.

Rode, 107.

Rogers, Sarah, 121.

---- T. L., 102.

Rome, comparison between English and Roman social history, 330 f.

Romilly, S., 202 ff.; on Game Laws, 189, 198.

Romsey, 289.

Roundsman system, 148, 159, 164 f.

Rous, Sir John, 141.

Rousseau, 4, 226, 232.

Rowland, John, 295.

Rowlandson, 329.

Ruggles, Thomas, 108, 112 _n._, 115, 133, 147 _n._

Run-rig system, 28 _n._

Russell, Lord John, 140, 183, 308 _n._

---- Lord William, 48.

---- 273 _n._

Rutland, 155, 159.

Rutland, Duke of, 43 _n._

Rye, 12.

Sagnac, P., 87 _n._

St. Davids, Bishop of, 42, 55 f.

St. Denis, 2.

St. Germain, 219.

St. John, H., and Sedgmoor, 65 ff.

St. Lawrence Wootten, 281.

St. Mary Bourne, 263.

St. Neots, 102 _n._

Salehurst, 253.

Salisbury, Special Commission at, 275, 290 ff.; gaol rules at, 276, 291 f.;

## scene in court, 298 f.

Salisbury, Bishop of, 85.

---- Lord, 85 _n._, 323.

Sanctuary, Mr., 257.

Sandwich, Lord, 58.

Sandy (enclosure), 101.

Sarney, John, 307.

Savile, Sir George, 54 f., 57.

Scarborough, Lord, 155.

Schools of Industry, 149 f.

Sclater, W. L., 281.

Scot and lot boroughs, 8.

Scotland, 129, 195 _n._

Scotsmen, Cobbett on, 213.

Scott, Sir William, 214, 221.

Seaford, 121.

Sedgefield, 129.

Sedgford, 137.

Sedgmoor. _See_ King’s Sedgmoor.

Selborne Workhouse, 243, 260.

Select Committees. _See_ List of Authorities.

---- Vestry. _See_ Vestry Reform.

Selwyn, George, 103, 223; and Sedgmoor, 65 ff., 103.

Settlement, Laws of, 112 ff., 141, 178 f., 261; effect of, 114 ff.; reforms made and proposed, 152 f.; Whitbread’s proposals in 1807, 179; litigation, 215.

Settlements, family, 21 f.

Sevenoaks, 244.

Sheffield, 115 f.

Sheffield, Lord, 37, 123 _n._, 124, 153, 310.

Shelley, Sir Timothy, 257.

---- P. B., 257, 326.

Shepherd, Aaron, 295.

Sheppard, Joseph, 301.

Sheraton, 327.

Sheridan, 14, 24, 139, 161 _n._, 223, 314, 326, 328, 329; on enclosure Bills, 57; and minimum wage, 140, 233; and Pitt’s Poor Law Bill, 149; and Game Laws, 198.

Shooting, change in character, 187.

Shopkeepers and allotments, 159.

Shore, Mrs., 125 _n._

Shottesbrook, 268.

Shrewsbury, 147 _n._, 152.

Sidlesham, 107.

Sidmouth, Lord, 218, 299, 314.

Sidney, Sir Philip, 312.

Silcock, 286.

Simms, the brothers, 263, 277.

Simond, M., 242.

Simpson (enclosure), 50, 51, 58 _n._, 59, Appendix A (9).

Simpson, Rev. Mr., 257.

Sinclair, Sir John, 74; on common-field system, 36; and enclosure, 59 ff., 83 ff., 157.

Sinecures, 173.

Sinking Fund, 173.

Sittingbourne, 246 f.

Skipton, 116.

Slade, Mrs. Charlotte, 263, 305.

Slater, Dr., 7, 28 _n._, 30 _n._, 32 _n._, 41, 42 _n._, 85.

Slaugham, 229.

Slinn, John, 194.

Smart, Professor, 173 _n._

Smith, Abel, 156.

---- Adam, 29, 36, 40, 110, 143, 152, 181, 207, 312; on settlement, 114 f.; on clergy, 216 f.

---- General, 142.

---- Sydney, 190 _n._, 198, 201.

Smollett, 18, 63, 214, 216.

Snettisham, 137.

Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, 85.

---- for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 318.

---- for the Reformation of Manners, 222.

Soldiers and food riots, 121 f.

Somerset, 98 _n._

Soup for the poor, 125 and _n._

Southampton, 267.

Southey, 14 _n._

South Sea Bubble, 175.

Special Commissions, in 1816, 172; in 1830, 272 ff.; at Winchester, 278 ff.; Salisbury, 290 ff.; Dorchester, 300 ff.; Reading, 302 ff.; Abingdon, 305 ff.; Aylesbury, 306 f.; conduct of prosecutions, 291.

Speenhamland, 19, 161 ff.

---- system, 19, 83, 302, 331; introduction of, 161 ff.; scale, 163; effects of, Chaps. viii. and x. _passim_; introduction into Warwickshire, 170; reduction in scale, 184 ff.

Spenser, 5.

Spring guns, 195 f.; Melbourne’s suggested reintroduction, 319.

Squatters, 28; described, 31; ignored in enclosure consents, 52; results of enclosure on, 97, 102 f.

Standing Orders, about enclosures, 43 f., 60, 62; origin of, 73 f.

Stanhope, Lord, 320.

Stanwell (enclosure), 33, 55, 58 _n._, 59, 86, 102, Appendix A (10).

Star Chamber and enclosures, 34.

States-General, 5.

Stavordale, Lord, and Sedgmoor, 67 ff.

Steel, George, 281.

Sterne, 24.

Stevens, James, 295.

---- Jane, 279.

Steyning, 9.

Stirling, Mrs., 196 _n._

Stixswold, 32.

Stockbury, 247.

Stockton, 130.

Stoke, 154 _n._

---- Cheriton, 285.

Stokes, 277.

Stone, Thomas, 81, 85.

Stotfold, 269.

Strafford, Lord, 48, 60.

Strudwick, Dame, 208 ff.

Stubbes, 34.

Studley, 89.

Sturges Bourne, 278, 322.

Suffield, Lord, 238; and spring guns, 195 f., 319; scheme in 1830, 320 ff.; interviews with ministers, 322 ff. _See also_ Harbord Harbord.

Suffolk, 122, 135, 177, 269; prisoners, 308 _n._

Sumner, Bishop, 159, 264.

Surplus profits, 167 ff.

Surrey, 258.

Sussex, 1830 rising in, 247; prisoners, 308 _n._

Sutterton (enclosure), 100 _n._

Sutton, Sir Richard, 30.

---- William, 281.

Swabey, Maurice, 306.

Swaffham, 99.

Swift, 235.

Swing, Captain, 245.

Taltarum’s Case, 21.

Taunton, Mr. Justice, 274, 310 f.

Taxation, 171 ff.

Tea-drinking, 128 f.

Tenant farmers, 28 f.

Tennyson, Mr., M.P., 196.

Tenterden, Chief Justice, 317.

Thanet, Lord, 321.

Thelwall, 136, 169, 241.

Themistocles, 70.

Thompson, Mr., 156.

---- Captain, 284.

Threshing machines, destruction of, Chap. xi. _passim_; reason of hostility to, 245; penalty for destruction, 273, 275.

Thurlow, Lord, on enclosure procedure, 53, 56 f., 61.

Ticehurst, 250.

Tilsworth, 43 _n._

_Times_, the, 177 _n._, 178 _n._, 193 _n._, and Chapters xi. and xii. _passim_, including articles quoted, 269, 274, 302, and Special Correspondent, 269, 274, 302.

Tisbury, 261 f.

Tithes, 217 f., 222; origin, 167 f.; demand for abatement in 1830, Chap. xi. _passim_.

Tithe-owners, and enclosure, 56, 61 f., 97, 168.

Tollington, 71.

Tonbridge, 255.

Tonga Islands, 187.

Tooke, J. Horne, 72.

---- William, 71 f.

Toomer, James, 277.

Transportation, dreaded by labourers, 198 f.; described, 205 f.; effect on village life, 239.

Treason and Sedition Acts, 139, 329.

Trecothick, James, 48.

Trevelyan, Sir George, 71.

Trout, J., 102.

Tunbridge Wells, 255 f.

Turgot, 4 f.

Turner, Mr., M.P., 198.

---- Mr. (Pyt House affray), 262.

Ullathorne, Dr., 206 _n._

Universities, the, 23.

Upper Clatford, 285.

Vachel, Rev. Mr., 178.

Van Diemen’s Land, 205, 283 _n._, 308 _n._, 310 _n._, 324.

Vansittart, 134.

---- Rev. Dr., 268.

Vaughan, Baron, on Special Commissions, 273 f., 278 ff., 300 f.

Vavasour, Sir Henry, 157.

Venice, 173.

Versailles, 2, 4, 327, 328.

Vestry Reform, Whitbread’s proposals, 179 ff.; Acts of 1818 and 1819, 182 f.

Village officials, 103.

Vine Hall, 249.

Vinogradoff, Professor, 17, 27.

Virgil, 122, 206, 238.

Voltaire, 4, 24.

Wages, and prices, 111; regulation of, 133 ff.; assessment in 1725, 133; in 1732, 144 f.; proposals to assess at Speenhamland, 162; wages in 1824, 183; demand for living wage in 1830, Chaps. xi. and xii. _passim_; wages in Berks, Hants, and Wilts, 259.

Wakefield (enclosure), 47 f., 55, 59 f., Appendix A (11).

Walden, 268.

Waller, William, 65.

Walpole, 6, 214.

---- Sir Spencer, 238.

Walsingham, Lord, 220.

Waltham (enclosure), 43 _n._

Wanstead, 132 _n._

Warbleton, 250.

Warburton, Mr., M.P., 187

Ward, Mr., 304.

Warde Fowler, Mr., 331.

Warren, John. _See_ St. Davids, Bishop of.

Warwick, 10.

Warwickshire, 169, 194.

Wasing, 303.

Waterloo, 332.

Watson, Bishop, 217.

Webb, Mr. and Mrs., 7, 16, 19, 30 _n._, 191 _n._, 234 _n._

Webster, Sir Godfrey, 250, 254.

Wellingborough, 269.

Wellington, Duke of, 140, 214, 221, 240, 252, 320; as Prime Minister, 253, 311, 316; and 1830 rising, 258, 278, 302, 309.

Wensleydale, Lord. _See_ Mr. Justice Parke.

Westcote (enclosure), 43 _n._

Western, C. C., 176.

---- Squire, 50, 187, 222, 328.

---- Sophia, 211.

West Grimstead, 294.

Westminster, 8.

Wetherall, 127.

Wharncliffe, Lord, 190.

Wheble, Mr., 305.

Wherwell, 284.

Whitaker, Sergeant, 203.

Whitbread, Samuel, and minimum wage proposals, 86, 134, 139 ff., 149, 210, 233; scheme of 1807, 20, 179 ff.

---- Mr., J.P., 269.

Whitchurch, 289.

Whitecross Green, 89.

Whiteparish, 293.

White’s, 69, 332.

Wickham, Mr., 266 _n._

Wigtoft (enclosure), 100 _n._

Wilbarston (enclosure), 78.

Wilberforce, William, 124 _n._; and minimum wage, 143; and Protestant Church in Copenhagen, 178 _n._; and the reform of manners, 222; and Prince of Wales on Cobbett, 223; on blessings of England, 332.

Wilde, Mr. Serjeant, 278, 282.

Wilford, 118, 120.

Wilkes, 72.

Wilkinson, Dr., 79.

Wilkinson, Mr. John, 116 _n._

Willet, Mr., the banker, 177.

---- ---- the butcher, 177.

William III., 5.

---- IV., 312.

Williams, Mr., 221.

---- Mr., J. P., 265.

---- George, 305.

---- William, 226.

Wilton, 261, 292.

Wiltshire, 122; 1830 rising in, 258 ff.; labourers compared with Hampshire, 298; prisoners, 308 _n._

Winchester, 15, 121, 219; and 1830 rising, 265; Special Commission at, 274, 276, 278 ff.; scenes outside gaol, 289.

Winchester, Bishop of. _See_ Sumner.

---- Lord, 284.

---- Mayor of, 265.

Winchilsea, Lord, 101, 130, 242; his allotments, 155, 157 ff., 160.

Windermere, 217.

Windham, W., 57, 224.

Windsor, 80.

Winfrith Newburgh, (enclosure), 51, 59, Appendix A (12).

Winkworth, William, 285.

Winslow, 164.

Winter, Captain, 310.

Winterbourne, 305.

Withers, Peter, 297.

Witley, 208.

Wonston, 284.

Woolridge, Henry, 306.

Worcester, 152.

Worcestershire, 169.

Workhouses, 147; destroyed in 1830, 260.

Wraisbury, 50 _n._

Wycombe, 306.

Wynne, Squire, 293.

Xenophon, 197.

Yardley Goben, 164.

Yorkshire, 13, 155, 269.

Young, Arthur, 31, 33 _n._, 74, 80, 102 _n._, 160; on France and England, 3, 105, 111, 224; on common-field system, 37; on enclosure and its methods, 44, 58, 60, 62, 79, 81; protest against methods, 82 ff., 154; scheme for allotments, 84, 173, 321; and Otmoor, 89, 93; on wheaten bread, 126; and minimum wage, 135, 143; and Speenhamland system, 165; and bailiffs, 213; and curates, 221.

---- Sir William, 141, 143, 148.

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p. 22 "eighteeenth-century" changed to "eighteenth-century"

p. 31 (note) "consent (p. 339)" changed to "consent’ (p. 339)"

p. 51 "of 721 neuter.’" changed to "of 721 neuter."

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p. 62 "his award was made," changed to "his award was made."

p. 69 "irregularity the Bill" changed to "irregularity: the Bill"

p. 76 "no less that" changed to "no less than"

p. 78 "ask for permisson" changed to "ask for permission"

p. 79 "inariably" changed to "invariably"

p. 105 "ses vaissaux" changed to "ses vassaux"

p. 107 "As Sidlesham in Surrey" changed to "At Sidlesham in Surrey"

p. 113 "till be became" changed to "till he became"

p. 119 "a parishoner" changed to "a parishioner"

p. 121 "As Ipswich" changed to "At Ipswich"

p. 121 "severe sentence." changed to "severe sentence.’"

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p. 278 "Sergeant Wild" changed to "Sergeant Wilde"

p. 304 "years’ transportation," changed to "years’ transportation."

p. 342 "(Lord of the Manor)" changed to "(Lord of the Manor),"

p. 343 "Clarks, Darey’s" changed to "Clarks, Dareys"

p. 357 "asking for leave." changed to "asking for leave"

p. 365 "‘A Clause was offered" changed to "A Clause was offered"

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p. 398 "scarce’) Clothes," changed to "scarce’), Clothes,"

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p. 405 "1795, 121" changed to "1795, 121;"

p. 405 "J.P, 297" changed to "J.P., 297."

p. 409 "Charles, 141," changed to "Charles, 141;"

p. 409 "148 _n_" changed to "148 _n._"

p. 411 "Isle of Wight, 169" changed to "Isle of Wight, 169."

p. 411 "Holdsworth, W., 23 _n._" was printed out of order

p. 414 "Prothero, R. E" changed to "Prothero, R. E."

p. 414 "against enclosure 47" changed to "against enclosure, 47"

p. 417 "Mr. Serjeant" changed to "Mr. Sergeant"

Inconsistent or archaic spelling and punctuation have otherwise been kept as printed.