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A Dictionary of London
… The ancient custom of placing in all his effigies a black pig at his feet, or under his feet, gave rise to the …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… proprietor and by 1891 a market gardener. 21 Dairying and pig rearing predominated. In 1879 a farmer lost 15 pigs to …
Magna Britannia
… near St. Columb, called the Giant's-Quoit, now used as a pig-stye. A few years before the year 1802, a cromlech was …
Magna Britannia
… 3. - Pigs of lead; 4. & 5. - Inscriptions thereon A Roman pig of lead 17 inches long and 20 at bottom, weighing 173 …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… 1 clerk, 2 yeomen purveyors, 7 yeomen, 2 grooms, 1 yeoman pig-taker, 2 herds, 1 keeper of Creslowe (?) The Poultry.Edw. …
Journal of the House of Lords
… about Six or Eight Weeks old, and each is to have only One Pig, which is to be fattened in the Winter; and with a Part of the Proceeds another Pig is to be purchased. Can your Lordship state the Number of …