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A History of the County of Shropshire
… at a domestic level and outside the town, using local hemp, flax, and wool. 60 Hempen cloth was then among the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… than rye and oats. 64 Other crops included dredge, 65 hemp and flax, 66 and a mixture of oats and peas. 67 Cottages … with 'hemplecks' (small pieces of ground for growing hemp or flax) are found in surveys of 1630 and 1695, 68 and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of fleeces and lambs together; at the same date flax and hemp were grown in the parish, and heifers, geese, and pigs … included wheat, rye, barley, oats, peas, tares, flax, and hemp; seeds were mentioned in 1737. 58 A close within the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… were wheat, barley, oats, vetch, peas and beans, flax, hemp, and apples. 43 There was both common downland pasture, … in open fields. 55 Wheat, tares, barley, peas, beans, and hemp were mentioned in the 17th century, and turnips, clover, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… being grown in the early 18th century, 96 and flax and hemp were included in an undated list of tithable produce. 97 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of dredge threshed. 12 Tithes were also paid on garlic, hemp, flax, reed, and some hay. 13 In 1600 tithes included apple, saffron, onions, hemp, and hay valued at £400 a year. 14 POST-MEDIEVAL … Between 1630 and 1632 at least two types of peas, flax, hemp, carrots, cabbages, and onions were grown on the rectory …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Whale line - Whole ginger Whale line An inferior HEMP from which the 'staple' part had been taken away; a form … Rates. References: Synge (1951, new ed. 1956). White hemp The term shows that the possibilities of whitening hemp were being explored in the late-seventeenth century, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of timber from British America, and timber, wooden wares, hemp, and flax, from the Baltic; the foreign export trade is …
Old and New London
… for Bridewell, and it is so called in "Hudibras." BEATING HEMP IN BRIDEWELL., AFTER HOGARTH. The scene of the fourth … tiled shed, a row of female prisoners are beating hemp on wooden blocks, while a truculent-looking warder, with … figured gown. There are two degraded men among the female hemp-beatersone an old card-sharper in laced coat and foppish …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… men who wanted to work, and in 1824 to purchase flax or hemp to employ poor women. By 1834 some 49 able-bodied poor …