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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… roundel above with portrait head, signed on the tablet 'Flax[man] R.[A]. scul[psit]', set up 1804; (11) of Roger …
A History of the County of Essex
… poor on work, usually in spinning, carding, combing, and flax- or hemp-beating. Interest on the loans was applied to …
A History of the County of York
… of goods handled by the Adventurers. It mentions iron, 9 flax, ashes, tar, pitch, red herrings, stockfish, coal, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… all ornaments, &c. The vicar was also to have tithe of flax, hemp, and all other small tithes, it was appropriated …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… wool, and, on the same premises, a mill for dressing flax, both for the farmers, who work it up at their own …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of settlement and bought four spinning wheels and some flax for the use of the poor. In the early 1680's it also …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… TOY See also DRESSED, HALF DRESSED, IN THE HAIR, UNDRESSED FLAX. Sources: Acts, Diaries, Inventories (early), … Inventories (late), Newspapers, Rates. Undressed flax [flax undrest; flax drest and undrest] FLAX not yet heckled, …
Old and New London
… rye, and other grain, as cables, ropes, masts, pitch, tar, flax, hemp, linen cloth, wainscots, wax, steel, and other …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… parish at large, are chiefly employed in the spinning of flax and tow, and the weaving of coarse linen cloth, for … of 250 horsepower in the aggregate; the quantity of flax consumed is about 5500 tons annually, and the value of the yarn is estimated at 264,000. Of this quantity of flax, the greater portion is imported from Russia, Prussia, …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… of animals and precious furs alone, as was stated, but in flax, hemp and other materials necessary for the rigging of …