Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776: June 2011 (Sixth) EditionReilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776: June 2011 (Sixth) Edition
Reilly, S. A.
Law -- England -- History
Beasts of Burden: The same render account of 104 oxen remaining from the
previous year. And of 2 yoked from useless animals. And of 1 from the
will of Robert Copp. And of 17 purchased. Sum: 124. Of living ones sold,
12. Of dead, 21. Sum: 33. And there remain 91 oxen. The same render
account of 2 goats remaining from the previous year. All remain.
The same render account of 19 cows remaining from the previous year. And
of 7 yoked from useless animals, and of 1 found. Sum: 27. By death, 1.
By killing, brought for the need of the lord bishop at Cranbourne, 2.
Sum: 3. And there remain 24 cows. The same render account of 7 heifers
and 2 steers remaining from the previous year. In yoked cows, 7 heifers.
In yoked oxen, 2 bulls. Sum: 9.
The same render account of 12 yearlings remaining from the previous
year. By death, 1. There remain 11, of which 5 are female, 6 male.
The same render account of 13 calves born this year from cows, because
the rest were sterile. In tithes, 1. There remain 12. The same render
account of 858 sheep remaining from the previous year. And of 47 sheep
for the payment of herbage, after birth, and before clipping. And of 8
bought before birth. And of 137 young ewes mixed with two-year-olds.
Sum: 1050. In live ones sold at the time of Martinmas, 46. In those dead
before birth, 20. In those dead after birth and before shearing, 12.
Sum: 78. And there remain 972 sheep.
The same render account of 584 wethers [castrated rams] remaining from
the previous year. And of 163 wethers mixed with two-year- olds. And of
16 rams from Lindsey, which came by brother Walter before shearing. Sum:
763. In living ones sold at the time of Martinmas, 27 wethers, 10 rams.
Paid to the men of Bishopton before shearing by writ of the seneschal,
20. By death, before shearing, 14. Sum: 71. And there remain 692 sheep.
The same render account of 322 old sheep remaining, with lambs from the
previous year. By death before shearing, 22. And there remain 300;
whence 137 are young ewes, mixed with sheep, and 163 males, mixed with
wethers.
The same render account of 750 lambs born from sheep this year because
20 were sterile, and 30 aborted. In payment of the smith, 2; of
shepherds, 3. In tithes, 73. In those dead before shearing, 105. Sum:
181. And there remain 569 lambs.
The same render account of 1664 large sheepskins whence 16 were from the
rams of Lindsey. In tithes, 164. In payment of three shepherds, 3. In
the balance sold 1497 skins with 16 skins from Lindsey which made 11
pondera.
The same render account of 569 lamb skins. In the balance sold, all,
which made 1 and a half pondera.
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