Mardler August 2018

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Local History more acres to grow a quarter of an acre of hemp or flax, which was needed for making clothing, ropes, rigging and sails. This edict stayed in place until 1593; necessary it was thought because farmers were reluctant to grow hemp because it was an unreliable crop and the processing to extract the fibres gave off a terrible stink. . In Praise of Hempseed 20
Local History A long rambling nonsense poem of 1620 by John Taylor “In Praise of Hempseed” (cover plate shown below) described the various uses of hemp but also waxed lyrical about the medicinal properties of the seed, against “All Dropsies, Colics, Jaundices, or Scabs, Gangreens, Ulcers, wounds, and mortal stabs” but also pointed out that the hangman’s rope was made of hemp and hemp fibres were made into paper, sacks and the seeds produced oil too. Sweet sacred Muses, my invention raise Unto the life, to write great Hempseeds praise. This grain growes to a stalk, whose coat or skin Good industry doth hatchell, twist, and spin, And for mans best advantage and availes It makes clothes, cordage, halters, ropes and sailes . The ultra-smelly process of ‘retting’, separating the embedded fibre from the flax stem through partial rotting was done by immersing the harvested crop in water The rotting was brought about by a complex enzyme action of microbes naturally present in retting water. Retting ponds can still be seen on old maps but no-one wanted to live near one. Fields and properties nearby might be called 'Hemplands' or 'Hempfield', such as Little Hemplands, the Syleham parish clerk’s house, still with that name and Great Hemplands, clearly visible on the tithe map of Syleham drawn in 1839. Syleham Green had a ‘retting pit pightle’. There were other retting pits at Eye and Scole and it is thought the River Waveney could also be used for retting, so that was possibly where the Brockdish hemp harvest was retted. Arthur Young, the great agricultural observer, recorded 8 acres of hemp being grown in Brockdish when he visited in 1802. There were also many public houses called The Hemp Sheaf; the one in Stradbroke that closed in the 1980s is now a private house. 21
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