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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… arable, 33 a. of meadow, and pasture for 32 beasts and 400 sheep: what may have been a roughly equal amount of land was … customary tenants who held 32 a. and had to wash and shear sheep and to mow, and 6 cottagers. 116 In 1545 on the other moiety 145 a. of arable with pasture rights for 274 sheep was in 5 copyholds and 1 leasehold. 117 The other …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… of Robert de Gant granted to Rievaulx Abbey, with pasture, sheep-folds and lodges, the right of keeping hounds and horns …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… mainly pastoral. About 1311 the abbot had at least 180 sheep, 231 and until 1800 succeeding owners claimed sheep walk for 300 sheep as far north as Ashwell Street. 232 Probably by 1386 …
A History of the County of Worcester
… namely, the payment to the lord of 2 s. or one sheep, 82 existed in the manor in the 14th century. There is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and the demesne farm supported 1 cow, 7 pigs, and 40 sheep. 92 Estates in the parish given to the Hospitallers in … calves, 14 'field' pigs, and two flocks totalling 162 sheep, together with the cash for others recently sold. 111 … Gooding's neighbour at Winter's farm, had a flock of 66 sheep, and in store 110 bu. of barley and 45 'shears' of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were apparently sent direct to St. Swithun's. 94 The usual sheep-and-corn husbandry prevailed. 95 In addition Ham's … and reaping and their wives were bound to wash the sheep. From them were drawn the ploughman, shepherd, and …
A History of the County of Rutland
… and 1334, his servants assaulted and his horses, oxen and sheep driven away. 35 This is probably to be accounted for by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… carried with it common rights for 3 cows, 1 horse, and 40 sheep. 162 Of cereals and sheep, the bases of the Cotswold economy, the former were the … In 1683 the rector claimed a penny at shearing for each sheep that was brought into Hampnett to summer in its fields. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… if their sons left the manor. 88 Oseney Abbey was keeping sheep on the manor in the 1220's when by a reciprocal … At Michaelmas 1280 his return of stock included 314 sheep in the whole bailiwick, 69 cattle, and 71 pigs. 91 In … of 13 16 s., but reserved to itself pasture for 240 sheep. 95 The manor was leased for 40 years in 1518 and in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… early, owing, as seems probable, to the development of sheep farming. An assart at the Grove is mentioned in 1182. 12 In about 1282 there were 400 sheep on the manor, and in 1299 there was pasture for 540. 13 … and his shepherdan early indication of the importance of sheep-farming here. In 1299 more than two-thirds of the rent …