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Journal of the House of Lords
… 12th Instant, I have now to transmit herein Mr. Richard Sharp's Bill of Lading for, shipped on board his Vessel, "The … of the Netherlands" Steam Boat, commanded by Mr. Richard Sharp, to the Address of the Board of Commissioners for the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… It was formerly considered that a Ship to sail must be sharp; but latterly that has been found to be a Mistake; that … Quantity of Canvas, they find that she sails faster than a sharp Ship. Would not a Ship that is built long, and at the … than they measure, being deeper. Are they built round or sharp? They are built, what the Seamen term, wall-sided. Has …
Journal of the House of Lords
… that do not carry the Breadth low down, but are built sharp like a Wedge, are not burthensome for Cargo. When an …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… and statehood in Africa: the U.P.C. and Cameroon, 1948-71. Sharp, Thomas Ph.D., Manchester. (Hist.). Supervised by …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… mixed with sand and gravel, some black and fertile, some sharp and white. Chiswick has some pure surface gravel. ( e) …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… inclosures involved the extinction of common rights. In sharp contrast to these, at Fovant, where the family farmers … capitalist farmer, while the distinction was hardly less sharp between the Butter and the Cotswold and Corallian … in the penultimate decade of the century being especially sharp. Thus in the second half of the 18th century the price …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… phase. War had doubled the normal day rates. Then came a sharp decline. Wages, which in 1785 had bought the equivalent …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… returning to what was accepted as a normal level. 42 This sharp, but brief, crisis left no really deep marks on the … The farmers of north Wiltshire have indeed experienced sharp and unpleasant crises, as in 187980, or in 19212 when … by increases which brought it up to 38 s. in 1939. 136 A sharp fall in real wages in 1922 was, in other words, made …
Survey of London
… it seems that he may not have visualized this aspect in sharp focus. For the architectural part of the memorial his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to the battle of Newbury, in the reign of Charles I., a sharp skirmish took place here between the parliamentarian …