 | Samuel Drew - Cornwall - 1824 - 766 pages
...— Irregularity of public Weights and Measures, Iu times past, says Mr. Carew, the Cornish people gave themselves principally, and in a manner wholly, to the seeking of tin, and neglected husbandry. In consequence of this neglect, the farmers of Somersetshire and Devonshire hired their pastures at... | |
 | John Jeremiah Daniell - Cornwall (England : County) - 1880 - 362 pages
...a charge, usually 10s. or 15s. per beast for the season. This is a very old custom, for Carew says "The neighbours of Devon and Somerset shires hired...their pastures at a rent, and stored them with their owne cattell." The cattle are of the old Comish, North Devon, South Devon, Herefords, Shorthorns, Jersey... | |
 | Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin - Copper - 1927 - 384 pages
...so wholly to the seeking of Tin and neglected husbandry that their neighbours of Devon and Somerset hired their pastures at a rent and stored them with their own cattle" (p. 19, edit. 1769). 58. Tonkin, Notes to the 1811 edition of Carew's Survey of Cornwall. 59. Maton,... | |
 | Carol Trewin - Business & Economics - 2005 - 234 pages
...were hardly used by Cornish farmers: 'In times past the Cornish people gave themselves principally ... to the seeking of tin, and neglected husbandry, so...at a rent and stored them with their own cattle', Carew observed. The 1789 bread riots in Truro, which coincided with the start of the French Revolution,... | |
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In times past, the Cornish people gave themselves principally (and in a manner wholly) to the seeking of tin, and neglected husbandry ; so as the neighbours of Devon and Somerset shires hired their pastures at a rent, and stored them with their own cattle.... 