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71 D. MacDonald and P. Barrett, Collins Field Guide to Mammals of Britain and
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72 T. Bell, The History of British Quadrupeds (London, 1837), p. 67.
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75 A. H. Cocks, ‘Vermin paid for by churchwardens in a Buckinghamshire parish’,
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76 Lovegrove, Silent Fields, pp. 79–100.
77 E. L. Jones, ‘The bird pests of British agriculture in recent centuries’,
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78 Lovegrove, Silent Fields, pp. 93.
79 Ibid., pp. 257–9.
80 Ibid., pp. 251–4, 260–3.
81 Ibid., p. 95.
82 Ibid., p. 57.
83 Ibid., p. 199
84 Ibid., Appendix 1.
85 R. Isham (ed. and trans.), The Journal of Thomas Isham of Lamport in the
County of Northamptonshire (Norwich, 1875).
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1 Thomas Cleer’s map of Norwich, c.1696: Norwich Heritage Centre,
Norwich.
2 J. Schofield, London 1100-1600: the archaeology of a capital city (Sheffield,
2011), p. 343.
3 M. Reed, ‘The urban landscape 1540-1700’, in P. Clarke (ed.), The Cambridge
Urban History of Britain, vol. 2, 1540–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge
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4 R. S. R. Fitter, London’s Natural History (London: Collins, 1945), pp. 51–2,
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5 Ibid., p. 59.