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A History of the County of Somerset
… 6 teams. Recorded demesne livestock comprised 13 riding horses, 11 cattle, 33 pigs, and 151 sheep. The estate was … the causeway north of the village, was used for grazing horses. 16 In 1598 the tenants of Woolavington Throckmorton … wheat. Young boys kept sheep in the Levels, drove plough horses, planted potatoes and beans; the girls did general …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the great Chester and London road, and supplied many post-horses; but since the establishment of railways, this …
A History of the County of Oxford
… small royal manor, 14 its proximity to the important royal hunting lodge at Woodstock presumably explains its choice as …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… there are fairs on March 31st and Oct. 14th, for horses and cattle, and a statutefair about three weeks after. …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Powell did with a picke hurte two of your petioners carte horses soe that they were not well able to worke in the time … Nicholas Terrett did lye broken downe unto the ground the horses of your said petioner when as the [carter?] followed … in the same ground did presently runne after the said horses in a most furious manner with a picke in his handes: …