Posted by Adam Quinan on August 20, 2003 at 01:56:58 from 66.185.85.76 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Death and Glories "Turmot" posted by Peter Ceresole on August 20, 2003 at 00:50:28:
1533 ELYOT Cast. Helthe (1539) 25 Turnepes beinge welle boyled in water, and after with fatte fleshe, norysheth moche. 1562 TURNER Herbal II. 113 The great round rape, called commonly a turnepe, groweth in very great plenty in all Germany. 1601 HOLLAND Pliny XVIII. xiii. I. 571 The best Husbandmen..give order, That the ground for Turneps [L. napum] should have five tilthes. 1629 PARKINSON Paradisus 508 There are diuers sorts of Turneps, as white, yellow, and red. 1672 Court-bk. Barony of Urie (1892) 92 Some people..did steall furth thereof turnepes and carrottis and uther rootis. 1759 in Q. Jrnl. Economics (1907) Nov. 78 In case of Wet Weather while the Sheep are at turneps they are to have the Liberty of Great Oxenden. 1764 in W. Wing Ann. Steeple Aston (1875) 63 Agreed at vestry to sow Sandhill turnoops this next year. 1782 BARKER in Phil. Trans. LXXII. 282 A wet week in the middle did not greatly hurt the hay, and was very good for the turnips. 1839 P. HAWKER Diary (1893) II. 168, I brought home 18 prime partridges and I lost another in the high turnips. 1863 ROBSON Bards of Tyne 315 We hev taties and turmits like Rosemary toppin.
See the last line, but it looks as though its from the North east not Norfolk