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A History of the County of Essex
… the men and boys to garden, pick oakum, and spin hemp or flax; the women and girls to do the domestic work, and spin flax for sheeting, hemp for sacks, and yarn for stockings to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Stock included 62 sheep and 14 or 15 dairy cattle. 68 Flax was grown at Bowford in 1787. 69 In the early 19th …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to have been grown in Warminster in the Middle Ages is flax. In 1315 a tenant of Cheyney's manor was obliged to dig sufficient land to take a bushel of flax seed, and afterwards to treat and prepare the crop 'as …
A History of the County of Sussex
… be 22 bu. of wheat, 20 bu. of peas, and 28 bu. of oats. 17 Flax and hops may have been grown during the same period, to …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… April 2 for leave to the ship Vine at Hull to unlade the flax and potashes belonging to Joseph Ferneley et al., … brought thither from Konigsberg: notwithstanding that said flax has been ordered March 28 last to be carried back again; … the ship's quarantine expired Dec. 17 last and that the flax and potashes were put into the airing sheds on Jan. 11 …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… leave to the ship Adventure to unlade her potash, hemp, flax, sturgeon and yarn, which was taken in at Pillau in the … and Mary, Miles Walker master, to unlade her hemp and flax brought from Pillau to Hull in January last, she having …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… and John, Eleanor and Blessing, laden with linen yarn, flax and hemp: in accordance with the Order of the Queen in …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… Norris et al., the ship Christian of Anstruther: with flax and iron from Konigsberg. on the petition of Charles …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… to report on the enclosed memorial [missing] relating to flax seized on the ship Katherene, a French prize taken by …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… with iron, copper, deals and tar; and the Katherine, with flax and hemp: at the petition of Alex. Mitchell. Mary, James … Anne, Alexander Reed master, with iron, tar and flax from Gothenburg: at the petition of William Bowden. …