 | Vegetable substances - 1833 - 480 halaman
...with the greater part of our demand. In 1531 a statute was enacted, requiring that for every sixty acres of land fit for tillage, one rood should be sown with flax or hempseed *. In later times the legislature attempted to promote the cultivation of these plants... | |
 | 1846 - 390 halaman
...productions. In 1531 a statute was enacted, requiring that, under certain penalties, " for every sixty acres of land fit for tillage, one rood should be sown with flax and hemp-seeil." From that period to 1767 many unsuccessful attempts were made to extend and improve the... | |
 | John Warnes - 1847 - 410 halaman
...flax must inevitably fail, as did that in 1531, when a statute was enacted requiring that for every 60 acres of land fit for tillage, one rood should be sown with flax and hemp-seed ; and in 1767, when 15,OOOZ. were proposed to be divided amongst the most successful cultivators of... | |
 | Thomas Keir Short - 1848 - 44 halaman
...1500. In 1531 a statute was enacted, requiring that under certain penalties " That for every sixty acres of land fit for tillage, one rood should be sown with flax and hemp seed." In the parish register of Pulham St. Mary, fines paid for the non-fulfilment of this law... | |
 | Alex Johnston Warden - 1867 - 840 halaman
...Linen trade, a statute having been enacted requiring that, under certain penalties, " for every sixty acres of land fit for tillage, one rood should be sown with Flax and Hemp seed," and in the register of Pulham, St Man', fines paid for the non-fulfilment of this law are... | |
 | Great Britain - 1884 - 370 halaman
...area of flax grown and the quantity of cloth produced. In 1531 it was enacted that for every sixty acres of land fit for tillage one rood should be sown with flax and hemp-seed, and fines were imposed for non-compliance with this requirement. This law, it would appear, fell into... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1886 - 472 halaman
...do something to encourage it, and a statute was accordingly enacted providing that " for every sixty acres of land fit for tillage one rood should be sown with flax and hemp seed ;" and " in the register of Pulham, St. Mary, fines paid for the non-fulfilment of this law... | |
 | John Blair, Nigel Ramsay - 1991 - 488 halaman
...and hemp in March for pulling later in the year24 and in 1532-3 Henry VIII ordered that for every 60 acres of land fit for tillage, one rood should be sown with hemp or flax seed.2' Yet imports continued to come in from the Baltic and Russia. -(> The London Customs... | |
 | JOSEPH ROGERSONSS - 1843 - 578 halaman
...roust inevitably fail, as did that in 1531, when a statute was enacted requiring that for every 60 acres of land fit for tillage one rood should be sown with flax and hemp-seed ; and in 1767, when 15,0002. was proposed to be divldod amongst the most successful cultivators of... | |
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In 1531 a statute was enacted, requiring that, under certain penalties, " for every sixty acres of land fit for tillage, one rood should be sown with flax and hemp-seeil. 