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Journal of the House of Lords
… crop the Land alternately with Potatoes and Wheat, or with Flax and Wheat; in fact it approaches so nearly to …
Survey of London
… 8 45 Alexander Ullathorne, Australian merchant ( formerly flax spinner) 34 m 5 0 5 12 47 William F. Allen, publisher, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… its growth, very little attention is paid to its culture; flax, for domestic use, is raised in considerable quantities. … but it is limited to a very small extent. The spinning of flax is carried on, solely for domestic use; there are …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… that the Beaker people kept livestock 65 and cultivated flax and cereals, growing much more barley than wheat, in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Cadiz, onions from Middelburg, salt, hops, fish, dressed flax, muskets, and covered stone pots from Flushing, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… later 18th century included employing women at spinning flax, 60 apprenticing pauper children, and paying a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and peas, 20 and the medieval name Linton suggests that flax was grown. 21 Wheat, barley, and beans, peas or vetches …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for 15578. 182 Horse Market was recorded in 1525, 183 Flax Chipping in 1549, 184 Swine Market in 1552 (presumably …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… iron and deals; to Russia, for hemp; and to Holland, for flax; and, in the autumn, frequently to Hamburgh and Stettin, … crops are obtained of wheat, barley, oats, peas, turnips, flax, clover, and potatoes, nearly equal to those grown in … turnips, with wheat occasionally, and a small quantity of flax. The system of agriculture is excellent; a considerable …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Rates. References: Kerridge (1985), 96, 103-4. Barr flax [four bared flax] [Acts (1736)] seems to have equated barr flax with SHORT FLAX, which was deemed inferior to LONG FLAX …