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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a. of meadow, and common pasture for 4 working cattle, 12 oxen, and 400 sheep. Rents of free tenants were 29 s. Two … There were 7 a. of meadow, pasture for 300 sheep, 16 oxen, and 6 plough-horses. Rents of freemen were 15 s. and of … a. of arable, 5 a. of meadow, and common pasture for 12 oxen. There were 8 free tenants, 5 virgaters with 22 a. each, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… they kept few sheep which they never folded, and their oxen were 'poor, stunted things', eight being required to …
A History of the County of Essex
… There were 116 sheep at Housham in 1397, with 6 stots, 3 oxen, a bull, and 17 cows. 175 The importance of dairy …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 146 In the early 12th century livestock comprised 8 oxen and 1 draught horse and land was rented for 10 s. 6 d. … the demesne produced 'good' corn and was stocked with 8 oxen, 1 draught horse, 5 cows, and 12 pigs. Tenant farms were … sold as Double Gloucester. 179 Butter was also made and oxen fattened. There was some arable producing wheat and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… In the early 14th century, on Argentines demesne, horses, oxen, swans, geese, and hens were kept. 215 In the late 15th …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 596 When Walter de Burgh began his custody in 1236, 32 oxen were delivered to him. In the ensuing year he bought 69 oxen, 1 bullock, 8 cows, 67 pigs, and 820 muttons, and sold 67 oxen, 7 cows, 154 pigs, and 820 mutton fleeces. In 12378 he …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… pasture and exceeding rich grazing land, and the largest oxen perhaps at any place in this part of England are bred …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been sold, 2 cobs ( affri), 3 mares, and 10 colts. Twenty oxen were left, after the sale of 4 during the year, and only … only clue to farming methods at this period. It shows that oxen were valuable and much used, for William Lewes complained that he had hired out his six 'wayne' oxen while he was away at the wars, and that Thomas Leyland …
Magna Britannia
… gentleman's mansion in the reign of Edward IV.: "Fourteen oxen; 10 kien; a bull; 8 hors; 60 bolokis; 400 shepe; 10 … 40 bushell of berly; 60 bushell of otys; 4 harwyis; 10 oxen-tices; 2 plowes; 10 yokk; 12 London stolys; 4 pruse …
A History of the County of Somerset
… virgates c. 1300, which included common pasture for eight oxen in Crewkerne manor. The property conveyed to the Spoure …