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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Very cold. I anticipate snow tonight. The first fall this winter took place yesterday morning. 10. Went on with History …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… exhibition during the summer months and a permanent one, winter months as well. Warm. 16. Sunday. Went to Maze Pond in … wretched state. That is bad enough, but not so bad as last winter, when everything was in a wretched state. Mr Rogers …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… there; he has just completed and sent a picture to the Winter Exhibition. 30. Went on with Valley of Kedron, drew a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Though usually dry in summer, the fen still flooded in winter into the 1940s. 7 About 1850 it still had a great …
A History of the County of Northampton
… This was run on an allarable five-year rotation based on winter wheat, barley and oil seed rape, with spring break … both in the 1980s and 1990s. At Home Farm & Little Hill winter wheat was the principal crop, with oil seed rape and … of 300 breeding ewes; Dagnall & Dovehouse had 280 a. under winter corn, with grass ley breaks, and 200 cattle. The mill. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… missions brought no permanent gain. By 1873 the vicar held winter cottage lectures for the distant hamlet of Upware, … 33 but by 1967 barely 20-30 might attend services in winter. 34 Although a small village, Wicken, though …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of use: 1526 See also ARGOL, WHITE ARGOL. Sources: Rates. Winter corn [wynt' corne; winter corne] CORN, such as WHEAT and RYE, sowed in the … as a measure, and such phrases as 'an aker & a halfe of winter Corne' [Inventories (1609)], and 'iijor dayes worke of …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… was held in the church weekly in summer and fortnightly in winter in 1743; communion was then celebrated four times a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… grassland, was an apparent emphasis on dairying: William Winter (d. 1564), for example, owned at least 9 cattle and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Elizabeth the manor was possessed by the families of Winter and Leigh, and was afterwards sold among various …