[395] Country Gentleman and Farmer's Director (1726), p. 7.
[396] Defoe, Tour, i. 87.
[397] Defoe, Tour (3rd ed.), i. 81.
[398] Defoe, Tour (ed. 1724), ii. 1, 134.
[399] Bradley, General Treatise, i. 160; see also Smith, Memoirs of Wool, ii. 169, where the sheep of Leominster, of Cotteswold, and of the Isle of Wight are said to be the best in 1719. The great market for sheep was Weyhill Fair, and Stourbridge Fair was a great wool market.
[400] The West Country Farmer, a Representation of the Decay of Trade, 1737.
[401] Memoirs of Wool, ii. 243.
[402] Ibid. ii. 399.
[403] Farmer's Letters (3rd ed.), p. 27.
[404] Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, ii. 384.