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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… [boge] A SKIN used as a FUR, consisting of a LAMBSKIN with the WOOL dressed outwards. The Books of Rates include different rates for black and white Budge. The SKIN was cut into two for trading, and … states of preparation. Two types, the NAVARRAN from SPAIN, and the RUMNEY, probably from Greece, apparently …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bulbridge (St. Peter) BULBRIDGE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, union of Wilton, Salisbury and Amesbury, and S. … Sir George Beeston, who aided in the destruction of the Spanish Armada, in 1588. The church was fired by a detachment …
Survey of London
… House CHAPTER XXIII Burlington House: Stone Conduit Close The history of Burlington House commences with the erection … mansion begun but not completed for Sir John Denham, poet and Surveyor General of Works, of which some parts still … bookcases, constructed of old oak and finished with Spanish mahogany. The fireplace was dressed with a marble …
A History of the County of Stafford
… there was land at Burton for 2 ploughteams in demesne, and a further 2 ploughteams were worked by 9 villani. There … woodland measured 1/2 league in both length and breadth. The value of the manor had increased from £3 in 1066 to £3 10 … ploughteams and some livestock, notably pigs and three 'Spanish' asses. 10 There was also a horse stud with 70 mares …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Staffs. to Cable Cabt. Maker of 13 1s on 30 July 1766 and 9 7s on 15 January 1776, in the latter instance for a Table for M. de Chabrauseut. … Where all Gentlemen that go by the Packets for Portugal or Spain may be furnish't as in London. [ The Post Boy, 21 …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Cabell, John (Cabull) Dominican, student at Oxford and Louvaine; B.D. (sup. 27 June) 1524, D.D. (sup. Jan. or … Exeter Coll., matric. 12 Dec., 1600, aged 18; a student of the Middle Temple in 1604, as son and heir of Richard, of … (sup.) 1548-9, one of these names rector of Willingale Spain, Essex, 1546. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus & …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Cabrach - Carnoustie C Cabrach CABRACH, a parish, partly in the district of Alford, county of Aberdeen, but chiefly in … is about twelve miles in length, from north to south, and four in breadth, from east to west, is covered to a … of Careston Castle, are lime, ash, poplar, plane, and Spanish and horse-chesnut, of which some have attained a …
Survey of London
… Cadogan House and Cromwell House CHAPTER 6: LXVICADOGAN HOUSE AND CROMWELL … (FORMERLY Nos. 2 AND 3 WHITEHALL YARD) Ground Landlords. The premises are the freehold of the Crown and are used for … of Cape Passaro, in which he entirely destroyed the Spanish fleet. On his return to England in 1721 he was …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Edward VI
… to return to his own country. Now hearing a rumour that the French intend to war with England, he has refused a continual stipend from the Regent, and offered to serve his Majesty, being able to raise, if … him. Offers to serve his Majesty, and to bring with him 20 Spanish soldiers; and if there is no certain intelligence of …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Edward VI
… 1548 June 1548 June 22. Boulogne. 161. Sir John Brydges to the Lord Protector. Sends with all speed the intelligence … du Biez commands the camp. The report that the Dauphin and the King himself would come has died away, and it is said … have been discharged; nearly all these were mounted on Spanish genets, and 400 gentlemen complain bitterly of the …