... country 20/., independent of personal bounty of 4/.—-a sum greatly too much at the present period, when men are plentiful as blackberries, for procuring recruits for the well-fed, well-clothed, well-paid, well-pensioned, and, in these piping times of peace ...

... Intelligencer mentions the circumstance of a lad at Idle, named Daniel Firth, meeting his death from eating a great quantity blackberries. At the Bucks Michaelmas Sessions, Williani Alartin was found guilty of the heinous offence of robbing his master C. S ...