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A History of the County of Essex
… the manor included 8 rams, 200 ewes, and 15 lambs, with 18 oxen, 6 cart horses, and 6 stots. 130 The continuing …
A History of the County of Warwick
… farme & ij at the Woodehouse'. The farmer was keeping 12 oxen and 'tyllythe as moche for his com[m]oditie & benefit he …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… acre, 15 a. of meadow worth 2 s. the acre, pasture for 40 oxen at 6 d. each beast, and pasture for 250 sheep at 1 d. … were worth 1 s. 6 d. the acre. There was pasture for 36 oxen at 6 d. each ox, a several pasture for 5 plough horses …
A History of the County of Essex
… explained by an increase in livestock other than plough oxen. In 1066 there had been 30 sheep, 40 swine, 3 'beasts', …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the customary stint: in 1500 it was said to be 40 ewes, 4 oxen, and 2 horses for each virgate in Great Milton. The … stint was smaller in Little Milton and was 30 gimmers, 3 oxen. The lord enforced his own agricultural rights: tenants … field in 1473 and the Wixons, yeomen of Tiddington, had oxen there in 1487. 388 Many of these men, some gentry and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 20 cows, 20 sows, 20 beehives, and 5 ploughteams; since 24 oxen (enough for three ploughs) had been purchased the … 8 days' work a year. They were each entitled to have 10 oxen in the lord's pasture, 247 and their freedom of marriage …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in quantity. Stock included 7 milking cows, bullocks, oxen, calves, 14 'field' pigs, and two flocks totalling 162 … supported 2,134 sheep, 23 young cattle, 5 cows, and 12 oxen. 122 Before 1814 Manor farm, then called Halse farm, …
A History of the County of Rutland
… in 1326 and 1334, his servants assaulted and his horses, oxen and sheep driven away. 35 This is probably to be …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Newark, about 53 H. 3. distreined Bryan de Herdey by nine Oxen worth 4l. to pay 5l. to the Abbess of Grace dien. 3 The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… land for one plough which was not there, and meadow for 4 oxen. 277 The parish remained divided into two main estates … V.C.H. Cambs. i. 380, 421. Ibid. 393 and 421, which says 3 oxen. Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii. 5623. See p. 217. Abbrev. …