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A History of the County of Shropshire
… and poultry for domestic consumption were widely kept. Hemp, and presumably flax, were already grown in the parish …
A History of the County of Sussex
… grown in the Middle Ages included wheat, barley, 12 flax, hemp, and apples, while cattle, sheep, pigs, and geese were … 1731; wheat seems usually to have had the highest acreage. Hemp 30 was also grown. Animals raised at that period were …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… at home, much was also imported: for example, FLAXEN, HEMP and linen yarn from (among others) the Low Countries, … DYED, Ermland, FLAXEN, FRENCH, greasey, GREY, Hamburgh, HEMP, HEMPEN, HOLLAND, HOSE, IRISH, KERSEY, Riga, ROPE, SAIL …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mentioned in 1536, 93 suggests flax growing, and flax and hemp were mentioned in 17thcentury inventories. 94 In the … by paupers in the parish from the 1780s to the 1830s and hemp spun in the 1780s 96 were presumably grown locally. In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… paid to spin flax throughout the period, and in the 1780s hemp was also spun; in the 1820s worsted stockings were being …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… great market: corn, cattle, pigs, bacon, butter, cheese, hemp, and flax, are sold in considerable quantities; and in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Greenland fishery; and their imports of timber, deals, hemp, flax, &c., from the Baltic, are very considerable. The …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… lands, and all the tithes in fruit, corn, hay, wool, flax, hemp, and lambs, and all the other tithes, oblations, and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Portishead, etc., the larv being sometimes plentiful on hemp-agrimony Aciptilia galactodactyla, Hb., is plentiful in … Clevedon rupicola, Curt. Brislington, Leigh Woods; among hemp-agrimony roseana, Haw. Clevedon (Mason), Portishead …