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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Yeomen, colliers, and labourers all engaged in mixed farming, and there was also some small-scale textile …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… with 3 d. extra for 8 to 10 or 18 to 20 lambs. The seventh pig and goose were customarily paid to the vicar, whereas for …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… fully. 71 Whatever the balance of arable and livestock farming in the parish before the Black Death, sheep farming seems not to have been of great importance, for in … and the 17th century, during and after inclosure, mixed farming was practised and probate inventories 82 showed the …