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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… flock of 940 sheep, and beyond that Cow down was used by a herd of 67 other animals. There were five farms on the land. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… chase which has never been under the plough. It contains a herd of about 700 deer and a flock of black four-horned …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Durhams was used for grazing, and there was a milking herd at the New Grange. Pigs and poultry were also raised on …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of an old pasture in the south of the parish called the Herd, and those who formerly held both common in the Herd and land on the Lower Hills were allotted pasture on the … either land only or common only at half that stint. The Herd was to be stocked during the four years with sheep at …
A History of the County of Somerset
… beans and peas and, in one year, barley. Stock comprised a herd of some 50 pigs and 25 cattle, of which 17 were draught …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… allowance of ten. At the same time the village herd was reduced by one-third to the rate of 6 beasts for 80 …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… of Aydon Castle, Northumberland. He bred here his famous herd of shorthorn cattle, and on his death in 1849 was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… first occurs c. 1522, the four fieldsmen and the common 'herd' late in Elizabeth's reign. These were the regular …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… is famed for its beautiful cedars, its oak avenue and its herd of white deer. The house is a square stone building, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… inhabitants had c. 1515 to keep their cattle in the common herd from Midsummer at latest until Christmas, 403 and from … were forbidden to put their fattening calves in the Linton herd. 404 On the fallow fields in the 16th century horses … after harvest were combined for both fees. The joint herd of cows and horses moved a week ahead of the sheep from …