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A History of the County of Essex
… and brandy from Rotterdam. Coastal shipping carried coal from Sunderland and Newcastle, rock salt from Liverpool, … channel in the Georgian period. 24 Between 1817 and 1820 coal imports rose from 22,439 chaldrons to 25,383 chaldrons, … the lack of wood for fuel. 25 By 1832 there were 8 or more coal merchants trading from the Hythe. 26 Smuggling of wine …
A History of the County of Essex
… The new corporation in 1764 imposed weight limits on coal carts and tried to enforce the Act; parish surveyors …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… numerous springs in the village; the substrata are chiefly coal, and freestone of good quality for building. The living … the rest meadow and pasture; the substratum abounds with coal, some of which is gaseous. The inhabitants are employed …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Gin' valued at £100 [Inventories (1730)], and 'Wheels for Coal Waggons, Gins and Barrows' [Newspapers (1782)]. Other …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the poor's share of the £44 income, c. £32, was given in coal in proportion to the size of their families. The land … from 100 to 170. From 1936 only £24 was spent yearly on coal, distribution of which apparently ceased after the early …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… one erected. A considerable trade is carried on in corn, coal, and timber; there are several fur-manufactories, …
Cardiff Records
… at the parish of Merthirtidvill, working in a certain coal-pit, a large portion of the aforesaid coal fell upon him so that he then and there by misadventure …
Cardiff Records
… Thomas Evan, of Pentyrch, collier, was killed by a fall of coal in a mine in the parish of Pentyrch. Coroner's Inquest …
Cardiff Records
… the deceased going down by a certain rope into a certain coal pit of Katherine Evan and Margaret Phillip, of … it so happened that the damp being then in the said coal pit, suffocated the said William James; by which damp … an Inquest on the body of Mary Morgan, killed by a fall of coal in a mine at Merthyr Tydfil. 1754. Inquest on the body …
Cardiff Records
… that the deceased was accidentally killed by a fall of coal in a mine at Merthyr Tydfil. At and from this time the …