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by William Cobbett


  Dipten: see Dipton, Hants

  Dipton, Hants: 419, 428

  Doddington, Kent: 167

  Dodeswell, Gloucs: 372

  dogs, 198, 201, 202, 203

  Domesday Book: see Doomsday Book

  Don Quixote: 345

  Donnington, Sussex: 86, 91, 123

  Donton, Sussex: 86, 87

  Doomsday Book: 428

  Dorchester, Dorset: 380

  Dorking, Surrey: 61, 63, 64, 67, 124, 154, 170, 194, 449, 450

  Dover, Kent: 144, 150, 152, 154, 155–6, 159, 160, 162, 164, 166, 171

  Dowding, Mr: 305, 306, 477

  Downhurstbourne, Hants: 41, 323

  Draycot Foliot, Wilts: 367, 389, 402

  Droxford, Hants: 46

  Drummond, Henry 64, 66, 222, 450, 477

  Dublin, Ireland: 331, 415

  Dundas, Charles: 29, 33–4, 477

  Dundas, Henry (Lord Melville): 150, 156–7, 160, 162, 164, 326, 354, 478

  Durham Cathedral: 359

  Durley, Hants: 98, 99–100

  Duthie, John: 110, 478

  Dymchurch, Kent: 150

  Ealing: see Eling, Hants

  Earl Stoke, Wilts: 320

  Earl’s Court, Mdsz: 126

  East Grinstead, Sussex: 10, 61, 122, 131, 132

  East India Company: 319

  East Meon, Hants: 48, 49, 50

  East Stratum: see Stratton, Hants

  East Tisted, Hants: m, 112

  East Woodhay, Hants: 385

  Eastbourne, Sussex: 444

  Eastdean, Sussex: 87, 89, 91

  Eastnor, John (Lord): 189, 358, 478

  Easton, Hants: 95, 98, 103, 104, 125, 205–6, 223, 236

  Easton, Wilts: 276, 278

  Eddington, Wilts: 320

  Edgar (King): 342, 478

  Edinburgh Review, xii, 38, 122, 146, 325, 335, 455–6

  education, C’s attitude towards: 12, 13, 138–40, 215–16, 219, 250, 260–64, 461, 461 n4

  Edward I: 354, 478

  Edward VI: 436–7, 478

  Edward the Confessor. 428, 478

  Egham, Surrey: 36–7, 38

  Egremont, George (Lord): 83, 88, 91, 103, 123, 247–8, 251, 478

  Eling, Hants: 419, 428, 432

  Elizabeth I:10, 359, 376, 426, 437, 478, 464 n3

  Ellenborough, Edward (Lord): 99, 354, 397, 478

  Ellenborough, Edward Law (Lord): xviii, 138, 458 n7, 478

  ‘Ellenborough’s Act’: m, 130

  Ellman, John: 37, 478–9

  emigration schemes for labourers, C opposes: 287, 295–6, 312, 334, 375, 463 n1, 463 n3

  enclosure of common land: xi, 86, 101, 443–4, 467 n4

  Enford, Wilts: 279, 290

  Epsom, Surrey: 5, 8

  Erskine, Thomas (Lord): 78, 128, 137, 148, 479

  Esher, Surrey: 87

  Eton school: 410–11

  Etwall, Ralph: 30, 479

  Evelyn, John: 64, 479

  Evening Mail: 447, 448

  Everry, Wilts: 31, 271, 272, 277, 302

  Eversley, Hants: 34

  Evesham, Worcs: 380

  Ewhurst, Surrey: 123, 124

  ‘Ewing, William: 199–201, 479

  Exton, Hants: 45, 46

  Fairford, Gloucs: 372, 373, 375, 375

  fairs, 3–4, 17, 440–42; see also Weyhill Fair

  Fareham, Hants: 72, 85, 92, 93, 94, 96, 98, 444

  farmers, C addresses: 16–24, 29–30, 31–2, 38, 406, 407–10

  farmers, politics and life–style of: xvii, xviii, xix, xxi, xxii–xxiii, 16–18, 24, 28–9, 32, 38, 57, 73, 83–4, 127, 158–9, 183–5, 216, 229, 266, 393, 403, 454 n8, 454 n9

  Farnham, Surrey: x, 7, 10, 11, 29, 46, 95, 102, 112, 115, 154, 171, 197, 203, 205, 222, 302, 360

  Farquhar, John: 326, 479

  fasting, virtues of: 385, 414

  Faversham, Kent: 154, 165, 166

  Fawkes, Guy: 357, 423, 465 n8, 479

  Fawley, Hants: 428

  Featherstone: see Fetherstone, Sir Henry

  Fellbridge, Surrey: 61

  Fellowes, the Rev. Robert: 192–4, 222, 479

  felons, fare better than honest English labourers: 215–16, 218, 235–6, 239–40, 241–2, 265

  Fetherstone, Sir Henry 237, 479

  feudalism: 89, 90

  Fielden, John: xiii, 457 n11

  Fifield, Wilts: 278, 279, 288

  fireplaces: 195–6, 213, 257–8

  Fisherton Anger, Wilts: 287, 310

  Fittleton, Wilts: 281

  Fleming, John: 106–7, 206, 234, 479, 501

  flogging: 187–8, 458 n2

  Flower, Richard: 279, 479

  Foley, Thomas (Lord): 361–2, 479

  Folkestone, Kent: 144, 147, 150, 151, 152, 154, 156, 160, 167, 170, 171

  Folkestone, Lord: see Radnor, William

  Foot, Michael: vii

  Fordingbridge, Hants: 428

  Fordyce, John: 4, 479

  Forest of Dean: 255

  forestalling: 138, 442, 459 n4

  Fortescue, Sir John: 226, 232, 312, 479

  Four Elms, Kent: 170

  Fox, Charles James: 4, 218, 456 n15, 480

  Fox, Elizabeth: 331, 480

  fox–hunting: 33–4, 45, 203, 259–60

  France: x, 23–4, 61–2, 84, 85, 150–52, 154, 157, 174, 177–8, 188, 224, 226, 228–9, 232, 270, 333, 339, 379, 394, 401, 410

  Frant, Sussex: 134, 135, 136, 137

  free trade: 226–8

  free–quarter: 10, 16, 17

  French Revolution of 1789: viii, xix, 84, 85, 111, 120, 142, 150, 157–9, 160, 162, 165

  Frend, William: 381, 480

  Frensham, Surrey: 52

  Friend: see Frend, William

  friendly societies: 435

  Frome, Somerset: 299, 313–15

  Froxfield, Hants: 48, 49, 383

  Froyle, Hants: 114

  Fry, Elizabeth: 242, 479

  Fulham, Mdsx: 3, in, 293, 320

  fund–holders, xvii, xx, xxi, 15, 18, 19, 36, 61, 72, 355

  funding system: xxiii, 6, 114, 177, 197, 219, 333

  Funtington, Sussex: 88, 92, 93, 94, 241

  Gadbrook Common, Surrey: 124, 197, 211

  Gage, family of: 222, 480

  Galloway, Alexander: 355, 426, 480

  Galloway, John Stewart (Lord): 366, 480

  game and gamekeepers: 30, 102, 104–5, 130, 197–8, 393–402, 417–19, 458 n7

  game laws: 111, 130–31, 266, 394–402; see also game and gamekeepers

  gaming and gambling: 114–15

  gardening: vii, 26–7, 65–6

  Gamier, family of: 107, 480

  Gatton, Surrey: 37, 68, 77, 121, 455 n8

  gentry, disappearance of small: 221–4, 248, 291, 340, 34, 365

  ‘George’: C’s riding companion: see Palmer, George

  George III: 237, 248, 191, 340, 341, 480

  George IV: 178, 480

  Gibbs, Sir Vicary: 354, 480

  Giddy, Davies: 59, 480

  gin: 3

  Gladstone, William: viii

  Glasgow, Lanark: 364

  Glastonbury, Somerset: 380

  ‘Glorious Revolution’ (1688): 197

  Gloucester, Gloucs: 302, 342, 348, 380

  glove manufacturing: 364–5

  Glover, Mr 345, 480

  Godalming Pismarsh, Surrey: 449

  Godalming, Surrey: 8, 10, 39, 47, 60–61, 63, 86, 112, 120, 122, 171, 195, 211, 251, 252, 257, 258, 449

  Goddard, Mr. 378, 480–81

  Godschall, family of: 222, 481

  Godstone, Surrey: 61, 122, 123, 132, 154, 170, 171

  Goldsmith, John: 440, 444, 481

  Gooch, Sir Thomas: 175, 389, 481

  Goodlad, Richard: 443, 481

  Goose Green, Surrey: 123, 384

  Gordon, Duchess of: 4, 481

  Gosport, Hants: 46, 47, 101, 111, 149, 444

  Goudhurst, Kent: 134, 137, 138–9, 144–5

  Gourlay, Robert: 304–6, 481


  Graeme, Charles: 109, 206, 238, 481

  Graham, Sir James: 313, 315, 349, 366–7, 391, 393–4, 481

  Grant, James: xiv

  Granville Levison-Gower (Lord): 410, 482

  grapes and graperies: 113, 367–8

  Great Bedwin: see Bedwin, Wilts

  Great Lyddiard: see Lyddiard Tregoose, Wilts

  Greatham, Hants: 48, 51, 52, 53, 57

  Greek revolutionaries: 355, 451, 465 n6

  Green Street, Kent: 167, 270

  Greme: see Graeme, Charles

  Grenville, family of: 178, 482

  Grenville Levison Gower: see Granville Levison-Gower

  Grenville, William (Lord): 456 n15

  greyhounds, 31, 455 n3

  ‘gridiron’, C’s: 127

  Grimbald, St: 208, 482

  Grimshawe, Nicholas: 272, 482

  Grose, Francis: 204, 482

  Grose, Sir Nash: 99, 482

  Grosvenor, Robert (Lord): 57, 482

  Guildford, Surrey: 3, 5, 6, 8, 63, 123, 171, 195, 384

  Gunner, William: 238, 482

  Gunning, Orlando: 258, 482

  gunpowder: 63–4, 110, 249, 250, 444

  Gunpowder Plot: 357; see also James VI and I; Fawkes, Guy

  Gunter, Mr: 253, 482

  Gurney, Hickory: 239, 482

  Guthrie, William: 428, 482

  gypsies: 44–5

  Hadlow, Kent: 168, 169

  Hallett, William: 439, 482

  Hamble, Hants: 433

  Hambledon, Hants: 40, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 115, 440, 444

  Hambledon, Surrey: 120, 123, 195, 237

  Hambleton: see Hambledon

  Hammersmith, Mdsx: 37

  ‘Hampshire Petition’: 439, 467

  Hampton, Mdsx: 3

  Hanford, Charles: 355–6, 357, 482

  hangers: 50–51

  Hardwicke, Philip: 136–7, 482–3

  hares and hare-hunting: 30, 31, 54, 203, 224, 271, 417, 455 n3

  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: 79

  Hartswood, Surrey: 182

  harvest home: xxi

  Hascomb, Surrey: 123, 195

  Haslemere Fair, 8

  Haslemere, Surrey: 251

  Hastings, Sussex: 151

  Havant, Hants: 77, 88, 92, 93, 126

  Hawkley, Hants: 48, 50–51, 52, 53, 57, 63, 112, 113

  Hay, the Rev. William: 318, 352, 483

  Haydon, Wilts: 370, 377

  Haygarths, family of: 107, 483

  Headley, Hants: 48, 52, 53, 55, 115, 116, 117

  Heckfield Heath, Hants: 34

  Hector, Cornthwaite: 25, 297, 483

  Henry III: 436, 483

  Henry VII: 376, 483

  Henry VIII: 230, 244, 422, 423, 436, 437, 483

  Henson, John: 482

  Herbert, the Rev. George: 403, 483

  Herbert, John: 390, 483

  Hereford Cathedral: 359

  Hereford, Herefe: 302

  Heydon: see Haydon, Wilts

  Heytesbury, Wilts: 299, 300, 307, 308, 310, 315, 316, 380

  Hicks Beach, Michael: 31, 483

  Highclere, Hants: 28, 39, 46, 171, 207, 211, 277, 404

  Highworth, Wilts: 299, 316, 324, 327, 328, 331, 335, 340, 377, 383

  Hill, Thomas: 222, 483

  Hindhead, Surrey: 8, 10, 39, 48, 50, 51, 53, 55, 78, 80, 83, 86, 112, 116, 117, 120, 123, 154, 196, 210, 238, 373, 444, 449

  historians, C lambasts: 428–31

  Hitchen river, 205

  Hobhouse, family of: 60, 483

  Hobhouse, John Cam: 142, 483

  ‘Hodge’: xiv, xxv n24

  Hodges, Thomas Law: 140, 483

  Hodgson, David: 118, 483

  Hogart, Mr: 165, 483

  ‘Hog’s Back’, Surrey: 10, 171, 196

  Holdway, Robert: 390, 483

  Holland, Swinton: 358, 483

  Hollet: see Hollis, George

  Hollingbourne, Kent: 167, 171

  Hollis, George: 105–6, 107, 108, 234, 483–4

  Holmwood, Surrey: 123, 124

  Holt Forest, 12, 50, 52, 255

  Holthigh Common, Sussex: 131

  Hone, William: 403, 484

  Honiton, Devon: 143, 380

  hops: xii, 7–8, 13, 29, 51, 52, 63, 73, 95, 113, 114, 126, 132, 134, 137, 138, 140, 144, 165, 167, 168, 171, 210, 327, 360, 406

  Horley, Surrey: 74, 122

  Horsenden, Kent: 138

  Horsham, Sussex: 78, 79, 112, 123, 124, 195, 241, 250

  Horton Heath, Hants: xxv

  Hoseason, Thomas: 215, 484

  hospitality, decline of: 373–4

  Hounslow Heath, Mdsx: 34, 37, 39, 49

  Howard, family of: 64, 222, 484

  Huguenots, 188

  Hume, David: 89, 428–9, 431, 484

  Hungerford, Berks: 39, 377, 378, 380

  Hunt, Henry: xxiii

  hunters, C admires: 198–202

  Hunters, the Orby: 205, 222, 484

  Huntington: see Funtington, Sussex

  Huntley, Gloucs: 348

  Hurst Castle, Hants: 420

  Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hants: 3, 17, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 38, 40, 41, 52, 224, 231, 232, 238, 269, 277, 388, 390, 404–5, 411, 435, 451

  Huskission, William: 23, 54, 71, 115, 178, 226, 333, 462 n8, 484

  Hyde Meadow, Hants: 208

  Hyde Park (London): 331–2, 417

  Hyde, Thomas: 359, 484

  hymns, C writes: 147

  Hythe, Kent: 144, 150, 151

  lies, Richard: 376, 484

  incendiarism: 265

  Ingrams, Richard: vii

  inns, charges at: 238, 385

  inns, problems with taking inner rooms at: 413

  Ipswich, Suffolk: 175

  Ireland and the Irish: xiii, 85, 193, 317, 326, 351, 390, 415, 432

  Ireland, William: 377, 484

  Irish Tithe Bill: 85

  Isis river: 335

  Isle of Thanet: 154, 161, 162–3, 166

  Isle of Wight: 34, 40, 45, 61, 62, 87, 102, 225, 404, 420, 444

  Italy: 82

  Itchen Abbas, Hants: 104, 108, 116

  Itchen riven 103, 104, 108, 126, 223, 223, 235, 236–7, 238, 276, 432, 433

  Itchen Stoke, Hants: 108

  Jacob, William: 305, 306, 484

  Jacobins and Jacobinism: viii, 5, 6, 9, 67, 84, 150, 152, 303, 304, 338, 392, 453 n2

  Jamaica: 375

  James VI and I: 357, 376, 465 n8, 484

  Jenkinson, Charles (first Earl of Liverpool): 160

  Jenkinson, Robert Bankes (second Earl of Liverpool and Prime Minister): 73, 75, 85, 86, 93, 119, 160, 178, 334, 484–5

  Jews: 6, 24, 73, 83–4, 89, in, 125, 135, 161, 177, 179, 180, 224, 226, 231–2, 248, 318, 319, 360, 364, 371, 375, 377, 378, 392, 395, 412, 442, 456 n1

  Jocelyn, Percy: 339, 485

  John (King): 404, 422, 485

  Johnson, William: 305, 306, 485

  Jolliff, John: 390, 485

  Judson, Mr: 195–6, 257, 485

  Keats, John: xv

  Kempsford, Gloucs: 376, 377

  Kendrick: see Kenrick, William

  Kennet river, 383

  Kenrick, William: 222, 485

  Kensington, Mdsx (including C’s seed farm at): xii, xiii, 3, 35, 37, 126, 130, 166, 171, 184, 265, 288, 320, 362–3, 380, 404, 427, 452

  Kenyon, Lloyd: 138, 485

  Kilmston, Hants: 44, 45, 47, 238

  Kimston: see Kilmston, Hants

  King’s Worthy, Hants: 210, 233, 384

  Kingsclere, Hants: 171, 404

  Knaresborough, Yorks: 131

  Knight, John: 330, 485

  Knights of St John: 422–3

  Knightsbridge, Mdsx: 104

  Knowles, John: 254, 258, 407, 409, 449, 450, 485

  Laing, James: 205, 222, 485

  Lamb, William (Lord Melbourne): 59, 485–6

  Lamberhurst, Kent: 137

  landholding by labourers: 344

  landlords, politics and circumst
ances of: xvii, xxi, xxiii, 5, 10, 18, 33, 35, 61–2, 70–72, 84, 85, 95, 183, 216, 221–3, 311–13, 354, 365–6, 391–402

  Landsdowne, Henry (Lord): 179, 180, 326, 415, 486

  Lavant, Sussex: 85

  Laverstoke, Hants: 232, 280, 297, 298

  Le Blanc, Sir Simon: 99, 486

  Lea, Surrey: 8, 10, 11

  Leach: see Leech, John

  Leech, John: 119, 253, 257, 450, 486

  Leeds, Yorks: 364

  Leigh, Kent: 239

  Leith Hill, Surrey: 80, 112, 123, 124, 154

  Leopold of Saxe-Coburg: 9, 247, 486

  Lethbridge, Sir Thomas: 94–5, 175, 176, 275, 486

  levellers: 5, 6

  Lewes, Sussex: 123

  Lincoln Cathedral: 359

  Lindfield, Sussex: 132

  Lingard, the Rev. John: 428–9, 430, 431, 486

  Liphook, Hants: 39, 48, 53, 54, 56, 444, 447

  Little Langford, Wilts: 337

  ‘live-in’ farm servants: 183–4, 460–61

  Liverpool, Lanes: 159, 296

  Liverpool, Lord: see Jenkinson

  Lloyd George, David: viii

  Lockhart, John: 24, 234, 486

  London press: 175–80, 216, 268, 410

  London University: 202, 461

  London, C’s contempt for: viii, xi, xxii, xvii, xx, xxii, 7, 35–8, 49, 52, 73, 78, 88, 94, 95, 96, 111, 115, 117, 124, 126, 130, 132, 140, 170, 172, 221, 148, 259, 285, 291–2, 297, 308, 322, 331, 335, 362–3, 365–6, 372, 377, 380, 452

  Londonderry, Robert Stewart: 38, 41, 42–3, 54, 68, 152, 218, 227, 239, 256, 275, 352, 354, 370, 392, 486–7

  Long, Charles: 8, 487

  Long Island, New York: 80, 81, 255, 256, 304–5, 344, 456–7 n3

  Long Parish, Hants: 233

  Long, Walter: 45, 487

  Longwood Warren, Hants: 101

  Lonsdale, William: 8, 111, 487

  Lopez, Sir Mannaseh: 39, 42, 43, 59, 60, 487

  Louis IX (France): 354, 487

  Lowther, family of: 8–9, 59, 487

  Luddites: viii, xxiii, 463 n6

  Ludgershall or Ludgarshall, Wilts: 269–70, 277

  Lyddiard Tregoose, Wilts: 327

  Lymington, Hants: 419, 428

  Lyndhurst, Hants: 411, 412, 413, 416, 419–20

  Lyphook: see Liphook, Hants

  Maberley, John: 37, 47, 290–91, 487

  McCulloch, John: 202, 487

  M’Kean, Thomas: 79, 487

  Mackintosh, Sir James: 31, 130–31, 218, 487

  Maddocks: see Madocks, William

  Madison, James: 200, 487

  Madocks, William: 68–9, 487–8

  Maidstone, Kent: 29, 137, 154, 166, 167, 168, 210

  Maidulf: 341, 488

  Maiden, Surrey: 29

  Malmesbury, Wilts: 328, 335, 336, 337–42, 343

  malt tax: xii

  Malthus, Thomas: 122, 134, 139, 277, 293, 295, 323, 335, 426, 428, 488

  Malvern Hills, Worcs: 356, 358

  Manchester, Lanes: 82, 84, 270, 296, 304, 314, 318, 364

  mangel wurzel: 369, 450–51

  manufacturing industry: vii, viii, xiii, 81–2, 90, 95, 100, 225–6, 229–30, 243–4, 292, 294–5, 307, 314–15, 317–18, 347, 351, 364–5, 375, 457 n11

 

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