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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… catalogue lately put out of the books printed since the fire of London. For that reason, I presume, he mentions only … scattering guns, but the wind was so hard they could not fire broadsides, so it is believed they lost one another in … or be crowded in by others, because he may be a fit engine of their intended disturbances, for, had I not known …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Capt. Trelawny or to such persons as he shall appoint 200 fire-arms and 2 barrels of powder with shot and match … in Secretary Williamson's office for a patent for an engine contrived by Thomas Hatton of Blanckney, Lincolnshire, … desire that no letters patent pass for the sole use of an engine contrived by Thomas Hatton, of Blanckney, co. Lincoln, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… to Williamson. Last Friday of a sudden happened a violent fire far from us. We now understand it was in the Isle of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… wind. Yesterday morning between 2 and 3 happened a violent fire next door to the victualling office, but by the violence … late. I doubt not you have heard more amply concerning the fire in her Highness' lodgings in the Court at the Hague and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… heads, they will be like tinder, capable of every evil fire, be it treason or felony. 2. Parliament is prorogued and … platforms repaired, the guns fitted with good carriages, fire-workers sent down and such gunners' stores as he shall … of the Temple having miscarried at the time of the late fire during their removal and Jacob Tonson being recommended …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… occasioned a quarrel by some of them committing it to the fire, of which a complaint being made to a justice of a …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… uses to Thomas Silver, master gunner, of 16 l. for fire and candle for the gunners attending as well the guns in … of 8 l. 13 s. 3 d. due to him for so much disbursed for fire and candle for three companies of the Guards in the … allowed to Sir John Holmes, Governor of Hurst Castle, for fire and candle for the guard there, which has been paid to 1 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… use of as a pair of tongs to keep great men out of the fire, but I will not burn for any of them, and, had I turned … the bailiff's house and took thence some wood and made a fire, in which they burnt the test, the records, rolls and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1683
… the guard being employed to arrest ships and goods and to fire musket shots (and afterwards the castle cannon shots) to … for 14 years to Jeremy Fisher for his invention of an engine for sawing wood and timber. [ Ibid. p. 191.] Jan. 16. …