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Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… also to utilize the oil which they obtain from boiling sheep's feet. Their great hope is to get soap and oil from …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… Northumberland is a grazing country, full of cattle and sheep, but with little wheat. There are in it four gentlemen … The province of Norfolk is a very open country, full of sheep and wheat, and abundant in all sorts of food. The … is rather mountainous, but still very rich in cattle and sheep ; there is plenty of wheat, and the ports are numerous …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… take thither the carcasses of a hundred oxen and many live sheep. There is no news about Aldegonde's departure ; he is …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… than formerly, since she sees that all clergymen are not sheep like those of her own country. I will also ask the …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… England, because they had fresh apples and pears, and many sheep, sucking pigs, and the like. Christopher Martin of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… equally divided between arable and pasture. A fair for sheep is held on September 21st. Bank Field, in Little …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1195 the 'vallis de Schengelton was restocked with 1,722 sheep, 200 swine, and 7 plough-teams of oxen: Pipe R. 6 Ric. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… from disturbed burials, were common. Bones of ox, sheep and pig were the most numerous, but remains of horses, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… survey Scepton and Sceptune, and signifying "the town of sheep," from the numerous sheep-walks with which it was anciently surrounded, and which … corn, is on Saturday; and a large market for cattle and sheep is held every alternate Monday. Fairs take place on the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… in Hemingbrough. The Anglian settlement of Skipwith, the 'sheep farm', 2 had extensive pastures, and the small village … man's rights, in 1642, were for 6 cattle, one horse, 80 sheep, 2 swine, ducks, and geese. 83 The same areas of … and fair were mentioned in 1624, 56 and a cattle and sheep fair was held on 4 May in 1770 57 and in the later 19th …