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Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… and Thursday. Beer and biscuit as above. Flesh 2 lbs. salt beef per diem, so that every man hath 1 lb. for a meal. Bacon … that fish, oil, and pease should be substituted for meat. Beef, we are told, costs 2 d. per lb., independent of salt … cost 2 d. per man per day, instead of 4 d., the cost of beef. The arroba of oil was three and a half gallons. The …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… fleet to return to sea. So great is the haste that all the beef in the London slaughter-houses and butchers' shops was taken and salted, leaving the town without beef. A part of the fleet is at Harwich, part at Gorend, and …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… service. The provisions are plentiful and good, and the beef well salted with Brouage salt, and put into wooden …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… people had been dressed in London cloth, and were fed on beef and beer without any other entertainment. He was sending …
Old and New London
… of a historian, about the middle of the last century, and beef sausages then became the fashion. Thomas Rowlandson's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… included bread, cheese, milk and butter and eggs, beer, beef, pork and other meat, ducks, salt-fish, and herrings. If …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lived chiefly on soup, cheese, herrings, and ale, with beef, mutton, pork, bacon, and poultry occasionally. Fish of … Sheep could still be bought for from 9 d. to 1 s., 165 beef was sold at from 8 s. 10 d. to 10 s. 1 d. the carcase; … raise the price of mutton, because it is eaten instead of beef, and 'so many mouthes goith to motton, whiche causeth …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… inmates were tolerably fed, their meals including cheese, beef, and pork, also occasionally from 1795 potatoes. …
Old and New London
… believe that here, where I can now purchase tea, coffee, beef, everything I want, on a Sunday morning, that such …
A History of the County of Sussex
… any sheep were kept in Sompting. An increasing number of beef cattle were kept on the meadows in the southern half of … land were roughly equal. Most farms produced corn and beef cattle, and Upton farm included a large dairy unit. 60 …