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Old and New London
… have winced under the blows of this jester's bladderful of peas. Thornton laughed most at the awkward phrase implying …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… stocked with 16 oxen and 2 horses and included 11 a. of peas and beans, 32 a. of oats, and pasture worth 10 s. 48 It …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the sheep house was roofed. Crops that year included peas and dredge, and a hayward, two ploughmen, a carter, and … 8 cattle and 112 sheep worth c. £40, left wheat, barley, peas, and beans worth £46. Thomas Slatter (d. 1694), farmer … worth £42 and cattle worth £30, but his wheat, barley, peas, and beans were worth £110. 30 Richard Hopkins (d. 1687) …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… being grown with smaller acreages of oats, barley, beans, peas, potatoes, and turnips. 20 The main farms in 1839 were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1437-8 the 'great winter' forced the purchase of hay and peas, and in other years there were untimely floods. 74 In …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Inventories (late), Newspapers, Patents, Rates. Blue peas [blew pease] A variety of FIELD PEAS distinguished by colour from other varieties. It does …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the ordinary kinds of grain are cultivated, as also are peas, vetches, turnips and potatoes. The produce of wheat on … by means of the Newport canal to the Bristol market. Few peas are sown in the Vale of Wye, or on the stronger soils of … Vale of Usk affords excellent crops of both white and grey peas, the produce being generally from fifteen to twenty-five …
Calendar of Border Papers
… of malt, 36 qrs. 5 bz.; of rye, "the whole" 30 qrs.; of peas and beans, 44 qrs.; of cod fish, 900; of butter, 6 …
Calendar of Border Papers
… boat from Lynn of M r Sydnames with "seaven score" qrs. peas and rye for the market, so we are pretty well stored …