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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… have immense flocks of animals of every kind, especially sheep, which may be called the veritable golden fleece. … ridiculous customs such as pulling not cutting the wool of sheep, drawing the plough by the tails of horses and the …
The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… organized by the Mesta, the privileged association of sheep farmers. 4 Wool, hides, and skins were sent by the … an impossibility. Thus a country like Castile, where the sheep were given the freedom of the forests, was almost … caused by the animals but to the fact that the privileged sheep owners often burned trees in the autumn to improve the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… do by the poor clothiers, or as the bramble does by the sheep. 3. As the richer sort of growers will have their …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… former blessing of able and pious ministers, and we are as sheep without a shepherd, being numerous, but with no settled …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… about his estate, which has been sequestered, and 240 sheep taken from him by Capt. Rookesby. I beg compassion for … a minister may be procured, and 5,000 souls not be left as sheep without a shepherd. [1 page.] Aug. 7. The Treasury …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… it, and Capt. Rooksby seized her husband's stock of 240 sheep; that she has 10 small children, and his estate is only … the sequestration, and calling for an account for the sheep. Approved in person. [ I. 77, pp. 413, 420.] Annexing, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… to act in their behalf, whereby they are left destitute as sheep without a shepherd; and being informed almost every … 1. That it should be desired that the export of wool, sheep and lambs' skins, fullers' earth, and clay, be felony … the trade of a fellmonger only to buy wool fells and sheep skins, and to pull the wool off the skins and sell the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… a pound of butter, the same for the inwards and head of a sheep, 6 ases for a pound of cooked beef, and the loaves for … the captives meat and drink, because they would not buy sheep's inwards at his price. We pray you, for the love of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… any commission, and before sailing from Foy, stole 20 sheep from the people there for his own use, and at sea …