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A History of the County of Somerset
… 83 and more, and could be put to better use to support oxen, cows, horses, and young stock. Costs of manuring and …
A History of the County of Northampton
… to the king, keeping enough pasture to fatten the oxen and beasts for the royal household in winter. 6 In 1235 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… three tenants were presented for not coming with their oxen and ploughs to the lord's park. 159 Customary payments … livestock comprised 60 cattle, including 19 cows but no oxen, and 25 horses. 166 A tenant in 1411 had a flock of 100 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 2 10 s. represented the value of the stock. It supported 8 oxen and 150 sheep. 259 Lire Abbey's estate was farmed at 50 … 2 s. the acre. On the common pastures 6 working cattle, 20 oxen, and 400 sheep could graze. 287 During the 18th century …
A History of the County of Somerset
… on Nettlecombe barton at Michaelmas 1380 comprised 15 oxen, 37 young cattle, 4 horses, 59 pigs, and 34 sheep. 121 Twenty years later the whole manor employed a few more oxen, some of which had come from Wales, and the sheep flock …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 8 a. of meadow, and two several pastures, one for 16 oxen and one for 400 sheep. The meadows were common after …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the manor seems to have had his own pastures for his oxen, cattle, and sheep; William of Aston allowed …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… had 6 ploughs cultivating the demesne, worked by 30 oxen and 4 horses, and a seventh plough, requiring a team of 8 oxen, was used between Christmas and Easter. 362 Sheep … his wife Joan. Other stock on the farm in 1540 included 16 oxen and 6 horses, so it evidently still included a large …
A History of the County of Durham
… from Reginald de Hillington, vicar of Norton, for sixteen oxen and four cows sold to him, viz., from the mortuaries …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in hand in the early 13th century when, with a stock of 16 oxen, much of it may have been ploughed. The customary …