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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 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: …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… a poore man, about December last had stollen from him two horses by James Shufley and William Willis alias Brookes who had commonly sollen horses out of the said county, and your petitioner following … from him by them and Master Sargeant who had alsoe four horses stollen from him did refuse to assist your poore …
A History of the County of Essex
… 339 a. of grass, and 653 sheep, 191 pigs, 84 cows, and 63 horses. 99 The Grove farm of c. 170 a., for example, …