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Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Merchants, who had furnished his Majesty with Flax, Hemp, and other necessaries for the said service: Of which …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… and to the said David the rocio [right to steep flax and hemp ?] estovers, and common of pasture. Pola Castle, 12 …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… to himself all oblations, tithe, pigs, geese, chickens, hemp, flax, wool, lambs, and milk due before then, and doing …
Old and New London
… to have been employed in Deptford Dockyard for spinning hemp and manufacturing ropes and cables for the service of … was burnt down in July, 1639, it being then filled with hemp, flax, pitch, tar, and other commodities. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… imports are coal, culm, dried fish from Newfoundland, hemp, tallow, deals, iron, wine, and groceries. The rivers, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 35 10 s., Lowe's 15, and Barker's 18. Only Corfield had hemp, worth 1 5 s. and 'at the weaver's'; there were weavers … wheat, a green crop such as vetches, and spring corn. 65 Hemp may still have been grown on butts at the edge of Ditton …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for its excellent malt liquors. 4 Of the industrial crops, hemp and flax were the most widely grown. Cultivation was normally on a small scale but many holdings had a hemp plot by the house. Continual presentments of individuals, and even of whole townships, for watering hemp and flax in streams show that the practice was common, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… where they grew their potatoes, vegetables, 45 and hemp. 46 Advocacy of the allotment system in the county went …