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A New History of London
… the pound, at 0 1 0 The best sea hog, at 6 8 0 The best eels, a stike, or a quarter of an hundred 0 2 0 The best …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… In the Middle Ages the fenland, which in 1086 rendered 400 eels to the lord, 11 provided a common fishery regulated …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… feet above the level of the sea; it contains salmon, pike, eels, &c., and a fish called powans, somewhat similar to a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Bridgwater and returned with red herring, salmon, conger eels, and barrels. 66 Coastal trade extended from the Bristol …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… south end of what was later called High Street, contained eels and carp c. 1574; in 1995, newly relined and restored, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was to stop at night when 'valeyson' (the capture of eels) occurred at the corn mills. 1 The season for catching eels, known as 'quill time' by 1529, was noted in the early … the mills. The fish then included perch, chub, gudgeon, eels, lampreys, and salmon. 12 In the 1840s the manorial …