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Old and New London
… other associations, being connected with the history of newspapers and the liberty of the press. At the Restoration … only suppressed by editors "writing it down" in the London newspapers. In concluding this chapter, we may remark that …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Inn Fields, London, cm (1747). Named in contemporary newspapers. [Heal] Umfreville, , Long Acre, London, cm (d. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1719)] and 'white silk hose dressed and undressed' [Newspapers (1790)]. In such cases 'undressed' seems to have … both formal (DRESSED) and informal (undressed) occasions [Newspapers (1751)]. OED earliest date of use in this sense: … (early), Inventories (mid-period), Inventories (late), Newspapers, Rates. Undressed flax [flax undrest; flax drest …
Old and New London
… and its object was the rapid transmission of letters, newspapers, and small packages of goods, by tubes laid under …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… David Lorimer on 19 October 1772 for 2. Recorded in USA newspapers in 1773 as a carver and gilder from Paris, late of … Maryland and South Carolina 1721 1785. Gleanings from Newspapers, Walpole Soc., 1929] Van Dem Helm, , over against … London, Dutch table maker (1711). Named in contemporary newspapers. [Heal] Vanderbost (or Vanderhorst), C., 38 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Houghton, Inventories (early), Inventories (mid-period), Newspapers. Vanilla [vinellow; vinelloe; venilo; vaynilla; … WAISTCOAT See also COTTON VELVET. Sources: Acts, Patents, Newspapers. References: Montgomery (1985), 170. Velvet … the descriptions of runaways advertised in the provincial NEWSPAPERS, that we learn how the popularity of velvet had …
Old and New London
… of the gardens which he had been able to find in the newspapers, was in June, 1732, when the "Ridotto al Fresco" … of William IV., if we may judge from allusions in the newspapers and magazines of that time. That they had begun to …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… able to withstand and defeat a vastly superior force. The newspapers further state that a part of the English squadron … will do the like on the coast of France. According to the newspapers they have received a considerable reinforcement. …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… forbids him to decline an engagement. According to the newspapers the Dutch have express orders to seize every …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… and fortune on both sides, when at last, according to the newspapers which are in part corroborated by the facts, the … of the parliament is at present under his control. The newspapers state that since the last battle the Dutch have …