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A History of the County of Somerset
… three yearlings, or ten sheep. Commoners could also cut sedge on the moor. Improved drainage of North moor was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was excluded from those fens reserved for cutting sedge during the winter, when the beasts were partly fed on … property, as at Chippenham. The fens also yielded sedge and turf for thatching and heating. Manor courts tried … were as regularly ignored, as villagers carried turf and sedge to Cambridge and to Stourbridge fair for sale. 35 The …
A Survey of London
… side were iron bars placed apparently to restrain the sedge and weeds from choking the passage' ( Archaeological …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… with brushwood', and Soffham, the 'meadow overgrown with sedge'. 4 Around the ridge were extensive meadows and carrs. …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… of the Skerne was almost entirely choaked by weed and sedge, the water stagnated in a number of small trenches and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Moors parishioners could pasture cattle without stint, cut sedge and reeds, gather dung, and dig clay. In 1831 the poor …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… was the Vernometum of Antonine. Between Willoughby and Sedge's-Hill is a considerable curve in the road; but …
A History of the County of Somerset
… abbot but not unlicensed felling of timber nor removal of sedge for fuel. 157 The bishop's piggery in Godney moor was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… assumed by the parish in the 16th century. 4 Peat and sedge were cut there in the Middle Ages, but livestock …