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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Great quantities of Oil, made of Flax-seed, Cole-seed, Hemp and other Seeds, ground or press'd by the numerous Mills …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… nothing but what they could earn by spinning or beating hemp. Ewin called on the Vice-Chancellor who, he said, would …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Jordan Well was used for coopery ware in 1615. 5 In 1682 hemp and flax were ordered to be sold on market day only …
Magna Britannia
… is sent from this port. The chief imports are wine 77, hemp, tallow, coals, chiefly from Newcastle, and groceries …
A History of the County of Leicester
… dealt in hats, mercery, haberdashery, grocery, linens, hemp, soap, packthread, honey, and other goods. He had in … 40 being in debts. 129 Leicester could hardly support a hemp-dresser, 130 but there were a few ropers in the town. In … and other items, worth in all 4 7 s. In his shop he had hemp and hair, haircloth and sackcloth, hooks, mails, and …
Old and New London
… "In the fields of this parish stands a famous factory for hemp, which is wrought with greater industry than ordinary, …
The Manuscripts of Lincoln, Bury St. Edmunds etc.
… Pontificatus nostri Anno Nono." [3 Feb. 1252.] [ Tied with hemp: seal lost.] Notarial attestation of bishop Nicolas of …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… consequence of which would be the ruin of our shipping; hemp, pitch, tar, cordage and mast, coming all from thence, …