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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and in others a rich loam; the chief crops are, oats, barley, wheat, potatoes, and turnips. The system of … wheat, for which the soil is extremely favourable, oats, barley, potatoes, and turnips; a considerable number of sheep … beans, and turnips, and there are a few acres of bear, barley, and wheat. Some progress has been made in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… widely kept during the 17th and 18th centuries. Wheat and barley were then jointly the most important crops, oats, … and Topog. of Medieval Towns in Eng. and Wales, ed. M. W. Barley, 60. S.R.S. lxvii. 117. Ibid. lx. 71. Cal. Pat. 13435, … and Topog. of Medieval Towns in Eng. and Wales, ed. M. W. Barley, 81. P.R.O., SC 6/1029/22. Inq. Non. (Rec. Com.), 370. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… mostly in a single unit of 64 a. in Dinmede. Wheat, rye, barley, oats and beans were all sown in varying quantities, … church scot hens, and eggs worth 6 d. 1 In 1257-8 wheat, barley, beans, and oats were grown and among the demesne … were 24 cattle. 2 In 1274-5 wheat (203 a.), oats (66 a.), barley, and beans were sown on 290 a. and there were 32 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the 17th and 18th centuries included wheat, wheat and rye, barley, peas, and oats. 16 Clover was mentioned in 1725 17 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… farmer in 1494 left his wife four times as much threshed barley as wheat, 18 and a smaller farmer c. 1559 was believed … to have sown roughly equal quantities of wheat and rye, barley, and oats. 19 Probably in 1546 Edward North's farm at Ashley Hall produced 36 bu. wheat, 80 bu. barley, 106 bu. oats, and 22 bu. peas. The barley, half the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… chalky. A considerable trade in malt is carried on, the barley produced in the neighbourhood being of a very superior …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 17th and 18th centuries were wheat, mixed wheat and rye, barley, oats, peas, tares, and mixed peas and tares. Cider … 18th century wheat was said to produce 24 bu. an acre, barley 26 bu., and oats 28 bu. 22 Hops were evidently grown … area, on the other hand, was small, with only 75 ha. of barley and 36 ha. of wheat. 34 A miller of Ashurst was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… in the spandrels are shields with the arms of Clyfford and Barley. The Roof of the nave is of early 15th-century date … of four sons, two shields with the arms of Clyfford and Barley, and scrolls; traces of coloured inlay; imperfect …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were mentioned in 1406. 127 In the 16th and 17th centuries barley was the chief crop, 128 and malting was widely … 161 In 1826 turnips, sainfoin, wheat, oats, and barley were grown on one Eton farm in Asthall Leigh, 162 … similar to that reported in 1917 (wheat, oats, clover, barley, roots). 163 In 1914 barley occupied 2124 per cent of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… £6. 19 Farming was mixed, the chief crops being wheat, barley, and pulse, beans, or peas, though oats, maslin, rye, … with Holywell field. In 1742 the sequence was (1) wheat or barley, (2) beans or peas, (3) barley, (4) fallow, but the order of rotation and combination …