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I have collected records of Meads from before about 1620, and especially before 1600. The Meads at that time were mainly in a broad swatch through central England from Somerset to Essex. The counties I am interested in are:

Cornwall

Devon

Somerset

Wiltshire

Warwickshire

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Oxfordshire

Buckinghamshire

Hertfordshire

Bedfordshire

Essex

Middlesex

Kent

Cambridgeshire

Lincolnshire