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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… merchant ships at Gravesend are waiting for stores of gunpowder left in their custody. Are we to deliver it to the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… 850,610 l. Ordnance charge for 60 ships for six months, gunpowder and shot excepted, 63,208 l. 13 s. 8 d. Gen. Blake …
Calendar, Committee for the Advance of Money
… in Blackfriars wants another joined with him, and that the Gunpowder Committee want money to pay for such powder as they …
Calendar, Committee for the Advance of Money
… Mrs. Hancock in Broad Street, and Mrs. Harris's chambers, Gunpowder Alley, Shoe Lane. [ A 21, p. 16.] July 21. Order …
Calendar, Committee for the Advance of Money
… father was "chief actor in that horrid and unparallelled gunpowder plot," and who, finding himself exempted from …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… for making the WAD that rammed the SHOT up against the GUNPOWDER in a GUN. OED earliest date of use: 1627 Found in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… W.T.C. II/178/9. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1603-10, 268. Two of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators were taken at Walsall in Nov. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The inhabitants are well supplied with water. Some gunpowder-mills belonging to government, situated here, …
A History of the County of Essex
… allowance to hold a service every Sunday evening for the gunpowder workers. This was 50 in 1823 and 75 in 1902. 21 The … 1794 and later refs. to 1800. Winters, Cent. Mem. Gunpowder Factory, 9091; Accts. of Ordnance Board, H.C. 101, … see also Winters, Waltham, 111, 112. Winters, Cent. Mem. Gunpowder Factory, 9091. E.R.O., D/AEM 1/1. E.R.O., D/P 75/5. …
A History of the County of Essex
… of Waltham for over two centuries was the manufacture of gunpowder, in mills on the banks of the Lea north and south of the town. 49 The history of the gunpowder mills until c. 1900 has been fully treated in … there that the earliest known record relating to the gunpowder mills is dated 1561. According to recent research …