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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… he eat no bread, but lived on solid meats, thick soups, sheep's marrow, and other aphrodisiacs, for he lay immersed …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… set fire to Derry, and retired to Doe Castle, on Sheep Haven. This is the Crosomond of the Cal. S P. Ireland, …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… noble horses, bulls, chiefly because there are no wolves, sheep with wool like silk, from which they weave cloth of all … is great abundance of rabbit skins, leather of bull, calf, sheep, lamb, and goat skin, which not only supplies Europe …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… of every sort, and such a plenty of pasturage, that 1,000 sheep may be fattened for a crown. In some places grain …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… weak and of bad wind, fed merely on grass, being like sheep and all other cattle kept in field or pasture at all …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… profitable pasturages for cattle and innumerable flocks of sheep, which remain the whole year in the open air; so that … whose wealth depends on England alone, which abounds in sheep, rabbits ( conigli) oxen horses, lead, tin, iron, and …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… this same moisture having caused great part of the sheep to sicken and die; the hay destined for the nourishment …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… that the former have become lions and the latter sheep; and therefore, to speak confidentially with you, I …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… have immense flocks of animals of every kind, especially sheep, which may be called the veritable golden fleece. … ridiculous customs such as pulling not cutting the wool of sheep, drawing the plough by the tails of horses and the …
The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… organized by the Mesta, the privileged association of sheep farmers. 4 Wool, hides, and skins were sent by the … an impossibility. Thus a country like Castile, where the sheep were given the freedom of the forests, was almost … caused by the animals but to the fact that the privileged sheep owners often burned trees in the autumn to improve the …