wheate

• “Somersetshire ... they do share theyr wheate very lowe ...”

  Oeconomicus

• “Seuen months the Winter dures, the glare it is so great, As it is May before he turne his ground to sow his wheate.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Of all these graines the Countrey yeeldeth very sufficient with an ouerplus quantitie, so that wheate is solde sometime for two alteens or ten pence starling the Chetfird, which maketh almost three English bushels.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Also there is great store of wheate, ryce, and dates growing thereabout, wherewith they serue Babylon and all the countrey, Ormus, and all the partes of India.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “And doubting that any number of ships should come before to take the people of the sayd Isle vnawares, the sayd lord made them to leaue shering of wheate, and caused the people of the furthest part of the Isle to come into the towne.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Aprill: and then in May in some places, he made to shere the wheate halfe ripe, howbeit the most part was left in the fields, because the Turkes hoste was come out of the streights of Constantinople.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “And they haue diuers great stones carued, whereon they poure water, and throw thereupon some rice, wheate, barly, and some other things.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Red-wheate, which are the Wheates which yéeld the purest and finest meale, (although they grow not in so great abundance) are the séedes which are most proper and naturall for this soile.”

  The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments

• “I have seen three hundred leazers or gleaners in one gentleman's corn-field at once; his servants gathering and stouking the bound sheaves, the sheaves lying on the ground like dead carcases in an overthrown battell, they following the spoyle, not like souldiers (which scorne to rifle) but like theeves desirous to steale; so this army holdes pillaging, wheate, rye, barly, pease, and oates; oates,”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828

• “Rosemary gilded very faire, hung about with silken Ribands of all colours; next was there a noyse of Musicians that played all the way before her; after her came all the chiefest maydens of the Country, some bearing great Bride Cakes and some Garlands of wheate finely gilded and so she past unto the Church.”

  Medieval People

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