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… by making cotton and indigo, and by raising cattle and sheep, which were sold in this and the adjacent islands. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… and been brought up to the trade of buying and selling sheep skins and wool, one being as incident to their trade as … of staplers. Petitioners have served their time in buying sheep skins and wool, and neither they nor their forefathers … the same as soon as it is shorn, or before it is off the sheep's back. Also to grant power to petitioners to elect …
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… which he has encroached in the chase; and there are 7,000 sheep and upwards turned on the chase all the year round, … which are much above the number allowed, being only two sheep to an acre. There is no pound to which the distresses … deer, having no feed there but what is tainted by the sheep, go into the purlieus, where they are destroyed: pray …
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… 3 miles off. M r Pool saies it is sworded with grass, and sheep feeding on it. It has been overflown in some spring tides. John Barker saies he has kept sheep there 7 or 8 & 40 years ago for ye tenants of Goring; … it has a sort of weed called scurvy grass, & he has kept sheep there at spring tides in ye smer. At eb tides it was …
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… the warrens. In a few weeks one hundred and three score sheep would be shorn in that marsh, the fleeces of which …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… from which in July 1644 the King's horsemen drove 644 sheep, value 600 l., to Oxford garrison, belonged to Sir Edw. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… other commons (because only by sufferance, and excluding sheep), therefore the claimants would be willing to pay a …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… the first buyer from the merchant or importer, and adding sheep's wool to the exceptions. Also that henceforth, for …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… William Legge, of Bray, yeoman, who had been convicted of sheep-stealing and burnt in the cheek for the same; praying …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… and the soldiers are to guard the city (the wolf, the sheep), as we fear a massacre. I am for the country to avoid …