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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the use of the bow, prior to the invention of gunpowder. It was established by Henry VIII., to provide …
A History of the County of Essex
… and early 17th centuries several mills were manufacturing gunpowder, an industry then new in England. 8 There are also … them in 1589 to Thomas and Christopher Gardiner. 49 'The Gunpowder Mill, late Mr. Sturley's', was mentioned in 1597. … under one roof. 98 In 1615 one of these was called the Gunpowder Mill. 99 In 1640 a new lessee undertook to build a …
A History of the County of Essex
… 10 s. charged on a house at Upton, to provide 10 s. for a Gunpowder Plot sermon on 5 November and 2 for bread for the …
A History of the County of Essex
… diverse as calicoprinting, paper-making, distilling, and gunpowder manufacture. 1 Until the 19th century most of the … bootmakers and shoemakers, 2 curriers, and 4 saddlers. 34 Gunpowder manufacture appears to have started in West Ham … among the earliest in England. 36 An unidentified gunpowder mill is mentioned in 1645. 37 No later reference to …
The Environs of London
… a sermon on the 5th of November in commemoration of the Gunpowder-plot, and a shilling a-piece to forty poor persons …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… manufactured at Kendal, stockings, slates, tanned-hides, gunpowder, hoops, charcoal, hams, bacon, wool, sheep, and …
Old and New London
… Everard Digby, Winter, and the other conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, of which we shall speak in a subsequent … the Chancery Court, with several crackers and parcels of gunpowder enclosed, which burst, and terrified the people …
Survey of London
… aptly placed, which matches had been rub'd over with gunpowder, on purpose to keep them surely burning, and by the …
Survey of London
… with eggs, oranges and squibs. A squib fell on a bag of gunpowder "and sett dyvers men a fyre." One of the pinnaces … until the greater part of the Palace was destroyed. Gunpowder was brought, and orders given to blow up buildings …
Old and New London
… the Queen's DinnerChristian IV. of Denmark and James I.The Gunpowder PlotLibrary of James I. at WhitehallGeorge … letter which was the cause of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, and Guy Fawkes was examined in the king's …