10 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks (1869), in Kathryn Kish Sklar, ed., Harriet Beecher Stowe (New York, 1982), 891.
1 This apocryphal remark is attributed both to Charles I and to Charles II. East Anglians quote it as a comment on the excellence of their roads; others remember it as a complaint against the poverty of their soil; cf. N. Kent, General View of the Agriculture of Norfolk (London, 1796), 16.
2 For the use of “turnips and pease [to] manure the land,” see Sir Thomas Sclater Manor Book, CAMBRO.
3 B. A. Holderness, “East Anglia …,” in Joan Thirsk, ed., The Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1640-1750, vol. 5.1, Regional Farming Systems (Cambridge, 1984), 197-238; M. R. Postgate, “Field Systems of East Anglia,” in Alan R. H. Baker and Robin A. Butlin, eds., Studies of the Field Systems in the British Isles (Cambridge, 1973), 281-324; N. Riches, The Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk (Chapel Hill, 1937); Eric Kerridge, The Agricultural Revolution (London, 1967); R. A. C. Parker, Coke of Norfolk (Oxford, 1975); Arthur Young, A Farmer’s Tour in the East of England (4 vols., London, 1771).