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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… cultivation, and in the mountain pastures large numbers of sheep, black-cattle, and horses of small size are reared; the … the estate of Cluny Castle, and grazed by large flocks of sheep. The rotation system is followed; and the reclaiming of … a rotation of crops; pay much attention to the rearing of sheep and cattle; and have convenient and comfortable …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The agriculture of the hundred was traditionally sheep-and-corn, with meadow and marshy pastures along the … pastures on the hilltops. There were a few extensive sheep-runs held in severalty, notably at Aylworth in Naunton, …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… of arable land to pasture for it became an important sheep pasture under the Brudenells. In 1560 it was estimated that with Cranoe Close it could maintain 700 sheep. 85 Like most of the other local Brudenell estates it … with clover and rye-grass to feed cattle and, especially, sheep. Some of the old grassland had been broken up for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… August 11th, and October 20th, for horses, cattle, sheep, and provisions. The quarter-sessions for the parts of … and fir. It is divided between arable and meadow, and sheep-walks, the former of which preponderate. Sledmere …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… to the demean, 2 runci, 6 cows, and 24 swine, with 600 sheep. The whole then valued at 10 l. per ann. and was one …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… foldcourses of Sir Thomas Inglethorp, that as long as the sheep continued in this parish, the rector should have the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… 3 mills, and the moiety of a fourth, a fishery, &c. 600 sheep, and 35 socmen had a carucate and a half of land, and …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… fishery, one horse, one cow, paunage for 40 swine, &c. 80 sheep, &c. five skeps of bees, and 2 socmen belonged to it, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and a salt-pit, 5 fisheries, 8 horses, 14 mares, &c. 340 sheep, and three freemen had a carucate, and 37 acres of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… survey, and by a freeman, before the conquest, who had 260 sheep, 11 swine, 2 cows, 5 runci, or horses, with a carucate …