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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… or "the beavers' pool," from its being the resort of the beaver, the skin of which was anciently prized more highly …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… products, found describing APRONING, BARLEY CORN, BAYS, BEAVER, BED, BREECHES, BROADCLOTH, BUFFIN, CADDOW, CALAMANCO, …
Old and New London
… coverings turned up at the edge like some oldfashioned beaver, the ends being sunk a little so as to let the rain …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… states, that in his time the river was inhabited by the beaver; and on this, more than most other rivers of Wales, is …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of the most important were derived from the Latin term for BEAVER. This was still used to some extent during the … period, but mostly for the processed products of the beaver, the 'castor HAT' and the material extracted from the … a Castor hat was, as its name suggests, originally made of BEAVER WOOL, or was intended to be taken as such, but by the …
Calendar, Committee for Compounding
… discharge of 10 acres of lands in Weston, of which Mary Beaver, of Langtoft, was seized for life, and possessed till … Committee to receive the two years' rent in arrear of Mrs. Beaver's estate till further order, and Brereton to state …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… of Maghuntley, dioc. of St. Asaph. The like for Stephen Beaver, to Edmundthorpe parsonage, dioc. of Lincoln. The like …