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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wisbech is now one of the principal places of export for wheat in the kingdom. The chief imports are wine, deals, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the beneficial rent of £14 13 s. 4 d., and one quarter of wheat or £16 s. 8 d., and was obliged to provide the annual …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… with the 'respectable inhabitants' to buy up a supply of wheat against the coming scarcity (in July) and gave £105 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… foodstuffs, and petroleum, while potatoes, scrap iron, and wheat were exported. 37 A certain amount of shipbuilding was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of their works. 44 Crops mentioned in the Middle Ages were wheat, barley, oats, rye, vetch, peas and beans, flax, and … sheep and over 200 cattle were recorded in the parish. 85 Wheat, barley, oats, peas, tares, 86 and hops 87 were …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… was arable; of the 238½ a. then cropped, 85 a. were under wheat, 72 a. beans and peas, 39 a. barley, and 37 a. oats. 78 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1621, while a small clothier in 1638 had a close of wheat worth 6 and malt worth 1 5 s., and in 1719 the wealthy … poor relief since. One, with three pigs, had accumulated wheat, barley, beans, and potatoes worth over 30; he and his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… had fuller's earth in his high chamber and two quarters of wheat in the hall chamber, while a mercer's hall-chamber in …
A History of the County of Essex
… half a plough team. In the early 14th century oats, rye, wheat, and barley, and a few peas and beans were grown. Oats … Park estate, 53 and by 1778 they were growing rye, wheat, barley, oats, peas, and turnips. 54 In 1801 the … largest of the 'very bountiful' crops in the parish was wheat with 267 a., followed by 175 a. of oats, 122 a. of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 251 acres woodland; the soil is clay, producing excellent wheat, and there is some very fine oak-timber. Stone is … heath-land; the remainder is heavy, more suitable for wheat, and the surface is generally level, lying in a hollow. … The soil is chiefly a sound clayey loam, well adapted for wheat and beans, with fertile patches peculiarly suited to …