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Subject: Re: Eaton Socon Overseers (of the Poor) Account book 1800, note 76
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:17:25 EDT



In a message dated 23/07/2006 18:10:53 GMT Standard Time,
writes:

A new phrase in here to me "1 load of roots" . Do they mean like
edible ones, carrots, turnips, etc, or something else?



I would say turnips, edible by both animals and humans. Farmers called them
'roots' ('We'll turn the sheep onto the roots tomorrow, the clover's about
finished'!).

Yours, etc.

Geoffrey Woollard in Cambridgeshire (once a sheep farmer!).

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