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A History of the County of Sussex
… patches of loam, and is arable on the lower slopes and sheep-pasture on the hills. The southeast portion of the … of the lords of Falmer manor was the rent of pasturage for sheep. At the Dissolution the Prior of Lewes was receiving a rent of 26 for pasturage of 2,600 sheep, when the demesne farm was worth 22 a year and the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… pasture rights for 29 horses, 14 oxen, 14 cows, and 696 sheep. 182 In 1534 Edington leased the demesne to Richard … to them farm stock which included a flock of 300 sheep; among the farm buildings included in the lease was a … holding of open-field land with pasture rights for 500 sheep and 20 cattle. 184 The tenants on the manor in 1086 …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… 10 shillings value, and 8 acres of meadow. Pasture for 100 sheep, wood for the pannage of 10 bogs, and 14 pence. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… league long and furlong broad, and a smith's forge. 74 Sheep-and-corn husbandry was for long practised in common at … probably provided extensive pasture grazed in common by sheep kept on the demesne and by the copyholders' and rector's sheep. In the early 17th century, however, part may have been …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were large areas of open fields and downland pastures for sheep. Downland and some of the former open fields were … Knighton c. 650 a., and Syrencot c. 300 a. 238 There was sheep-and-corn husbandry in all six areas, and generally it … field next to Ablington, and extensive common pasture for sheep. 241 Later the fields were called Upper, Middle, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that the canons of St. Augustine's, Bristol, were keeping sheep on their land in Finmere. 103 By the end of the 13th … plots of meadow, and common for 8 beasts, 5 horses, and 60 sheep; 162 a terrier of 1634 lists an even larger number of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a. of arable, a meadow, and pasture on Bull down for 300 sheep. There were four customary tenants who held 2 virgates … arable, 2 a. of meadow, and pasture on 'Lyntedown' for 600 sheep. There were free tenants and four customary tenants … they were leased together as a single demesne farm. 115 Sheep farming predominated, as is to be expected in a parish …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… doing other works. They paid to the charity of St. Peter 4 sheep, 5 ells of cloth, 10 dishes, 200 loaves, and 10 hens, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… gave the Church of Flintham, and Pasture for three Hundred Sheep in this Territory, to the Abbey of Wellebeck. 4 She had …